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Schedule number: CLII
Harmonized System version: HS 2002
WTO Membership since: 11 December, 2001
This schedule is authentic in: English
Date of last schedule updated: 20 February, 2026

Section	Note Number	Note
Part I Section IA	Note 1	The "final bound rate" of duty, if differing from the "bound rate at date of accession", will be implemented according to the date specified in the "implementation" column. The implementation column indicates the date, referring to 1 January of the year indicated, when the final bound rate will be achieved. Tariff reductions will be implemented according to the attached Staging Matrix in Annex I.
Part I Section IA	Note 1	Coffee in berries, coffee beans, coffee beans not skinner and any other kind of coffee beans are included in HS 09011100.
Part I Section IA	Note 10	Tobacco of the following types: Virginia type, Burley type, Maryland/turco type, Kentucky type, Light aired-cured tobacco, sun-cared Oriental type, dark aired cured tobacco, and others are included in HS 24011090.
Part I Section IA	Note 11	Tobacco of the following types: Virginia type, Burley type, Maryland/turco type, Kentucky type, Light aired-cured tobacco, sun-cared Oriental type, dark aired cured tobacco, and others are included in HS 24012090.
Part I Section IA	Note 12	Tobacco refuse of the following types: Virginia type, Burley type, Maryland/turco type, tobacco stems, cut, ground or pulverized and others are included in HS 24013000.
Part I Section IA	Note 13	Hand-rolled cigars and others are included in HS 24021000.
Part I Section IA	Note 14	Cigarettes containing cloves and others are included in HS 24022000.
Part I Section IA	Note 2	Coffee ground and not ground is included in HS 09012200.
Part I Section IA	Note 2	a) The People's Republic of China shall maintain its in-quota applied and bound rates (and, upon removal of the tariff-quota, its applied and bound rates) for HS 1514 (rape or colza (canola) oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified) at a level equal to that for HS 1507 (soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified) and for HS 1205 (rape or colza (canola) seeds, whether or not broken). b) China undertakes in principle to apply its tariff, both bound and applied rates, as well as other duties and charges, in such a way as to not cause distortions in the terms of competition between substitute products or competing suppliers. In this regard, there was particular interest in ensuring fair competition between rape (canola) seeds and soybeans, rape (canola) oil and soybean oil; flours and meals of oilseed and forage products (including lupines); forage products (including lupines) and flours and meals of soybeans; forage products (including lupines) and oil-cake and other solid residues of soybean; raw cane sugar and raw beet sugar, refined sugar artificial sweeteners and sugar substitutes; and wool and other competing fibres. c) After the implementation period for HS 12141000 (lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets), the People's Republic of China shall maintain its bound and applied rates for HS 12141000 at a level equal to that for HS 2304 (oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extractions of soybean oil). d) Malt (1107)- The People's Republic of China agrees that the applied tariff for malt will be no more than seven percentage points higher than the applied rate on barley (i.e. if the applied rate on barley is three percent, the tariff on malt will be no higher than 10 percent; if the applied rate on barley is one percent, the applied rate on malt will be no higher than 8 percent). e) Barley - The People's Republic of China shall provide adequate advance notice of at least 3 months for increases in the applied tariff rate on barley, which now stands at 3 percent. The People's Republic of China shall provide stability by ensuring any changes in applied rates will be in place for a minimum of one year. Tariffs will be no higher than the tariff which applied when contracts were signed. f) The People's Republic of China specifically agrees that coconut oil (HS 15131100 and HS 15131900) will be accorded treatment upon importation on terms no less favorable than that accorded to like, directly competitive or substitutable products imported from any WTO Member. g) Feed peas (07131090)- will be granted parity with HS 2304 (oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soybean oil.).
Part I Section IA	Note 3	Carrageenan is included in HS 13023100.
Part I Section IA	Note 3	Except as specified in Section I-B, all products imported by non-state trading enterprises will be afforded no less favorable treatment than products imported by state trading enterprises, including but not limited to being subject to the same applied tariff and other duties and charges, inspection or quarantine requirements, application of the value-added tax, application of provincial taxes. All such imported products shall be accorded national treatment under Article III of GATT 1994, especially paragraph 4 thereof, in respect of their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use, including their direct access to end users.
Part I Section IA	Note 4	Any enterprise possessing the right to trade (the People's Republic of China shall grant the right to trade state-traded agricultural products subject to a tariff-quota in Section I-B to any enterprises possessing the right to trade any product under Section 5 of the Protocol of Accession (i.e., possessing general trading rights), except for imports as specified in Section I-B reserved for state trading enterprises.) will be permitted to import products listed in Section I-B at the in-quota duty rate if the People's Republic of China increases the within-quota quantity to an amount in excess of that set forth in Section I-B for any year. Allocation of shares of such additional quota quantities to end users will be on the basis of first-come, first-served or the same method used for initial allocation of the product. The People's Republic of China shall publicly notify through the official journal the availbility of additional quantities and the allocation procedures ten days in advance of their allocation and will notify the WTO Committee on Agriculture of the additional quantity and procedures in its annual tariff-quota notifications. Inquiries on the entities which received the allocation of the additional quantity can be made to the State Development and Planning Commission (SDPC) which will provide the information within 10 days.
Part I Section IA	Note 4	Palm sterin and others are included in HS 15119010, 15119020 and 15119090.
Part I Section IA	Note 5	Hermetically sealed salmon is included in HS 16041110 and 16041190.
Part I Section IA	Note 6	Hermetically sealed herrings are included in HS 16041200.
Part I Section IA	Note 7	Raw sugar for refining and others are included in HS 17011100.
Part I Section IA	Note 8	Coconut chips are included in HS 20081990.
Part I Section IA	Note 9	Nata de coco is included in HS 20089990.
Part I Section IB	Note 1	Notes: The share of the tariff-quota reserved for importation through state-trading enterprises is specified in column 7 of Section I-B. The remainder of the tariff-quota quantity is reserved for importation through any non-state trading enterprise possessing the right to trade in any product as set forth in Section 5 of China's Protocol of Accession.
Part I Section IB	Note 1	Tariff quotas indicated in the third column are volumes for calendar year 2001. Tariff quota concessions will be implemented according to the date specified in the "implementation" column. The implementation column indicates the date (referring to 1 January of the year indicated) when the final quota quantity will be achieved. The tariff quota concessions are subject to equal annual adjustments (occurring on 1 January of each year), unless otherwise specified in the last column ("Other terms and conditions").
Part I Section IB	Note 2	The People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as "China")shall maintain its in-quota applied and bound rates (and, upon removal of the tariff-quota, its applied and bound rates) for HS 1514 (rape or colza (canola) oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified) at a level equal to that for HS 1507 (soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified) and for HS 1205 (rape or colza (canola) seeds, whether or not broken).
Part I Section IB	Note 2	China shall ensure that the applied duty for soybean oil, rapeseed oil, palm oil, peanut oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower seed oil, and corn oil is no greater than the applied duty for any one of these oils or for any other vegetable oil. Of the vegetable oils subject to tariff quota (i.e., soybean oil, rapeseed oil, and palm oil), if the tariff-quota for any one oil is autonomously increased, the tariff-quotas for the other two will be increased commensurately. Beginning 1 January 2006, China will remove soybean oil, rapeseed oil and palm oil from Annex 2A of the Protocol of Accession and will grant the right to trade such oils to all individuals and enterprises.
Part I Section IB	Note 3	The growth rate for the TRQ volume for canola (rapeseed) oil shall be no less than the growth rate for the TRQ volume for soybean oil.
Part I Section IB	Note 3	All quota holders, that have already fully used or contracted their tariff-quota allocations in any year by 15 September shall also be eligible for reallocation of tariff-quota from other quota holders that have returned their allocations.
Part I Section IB	Note 4	An entity granted a tariff quota allocation (quota-holder) may engage in importation through state-trading enterprises and/or through entities possessing the right to trade other than state-trading enterprises, including direct importation by the quota holder, as indicated on documentation issued with the allocation or reallocation of the tariff quota quantities.