Shi Bi, Member Of CPPCC Standing Committee: Proposal To Implement Zero Tariff On Raw Leather Import

After P reform and opening up, China has gradually become a world recognized fur country.

China's fur industry sales revenue of about 100 billion yuan, fur animals (mink, fox, etc.) accounted for more than fifty percent of the world's total output, providing about 7000000 people with employment opportunities (including farming, processing and supporting industry practitioners), in order to solve the problem of "three farmers" and improve people's livelihood has played an important role.

China's fur industry has the advantage of sustainable development.

However, due to the fact that some industrial policies do not match the new development of the industry, it has seriously affected the healthy development of the industry.

One of the most striking problems is that under the condition of "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp "/a", the import tariff of leather is higher than that of the international average, the smuggling and illegal activities are rampant, especially with the processing trade policy, which has laid a legitimate coat for smuggling and further helped to increase the spread of smuggling.

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< p > in recent years, < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > fur industry < /a > smuggling frequent.

In November 7, 2013, CCTV news broadcasts a case of Guangdong Shantou customs cracked up to smuggle high-grade fur with false trade and processing trade. The case is worth 7 billion 600 million yuan.

The Guangzhou customs anti smuggling bureau pointed out that the "9. 14" mink skin smuggling case occurred in 2010 and pointed out that "there is an industrial smuggling risk in China's fur industry", and clearly pointed out that fur processing trade has completed its historical mission and has now become the main channel for trade smuggling.

These illegal behaviors not only damage the interests of the state, but also disrupt the fair competition order of the fur industry, which seriously affects the sustainable development of the fur industry.

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There are two main reasons for these serious problems. < p >

First, China has adopted a high tariff policy on "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp "fur pellet" /a > imports, which objectively induces many smuggling behaviors.

China's mink skins and raw fox skins (the main raw materials for processing high-grade fur garments) in China are 10% and 15% of the most favored nation tax rate, and 13% of the value-added tax is collected, and two gross taxes are up to 25-30%.

For example, the EU import tariff of Italy is 0.10%, other countries are zero tariff; import tariffs of Turkey and Japan are 3.6% and 0-3.5% respectively; ASEAN countries are basically zero tariff; Hongkong region is zero tariff.

According to China's current tariff and VAT policy, the cost of importing raw mink water by Chinese businessmen is about 165 yuan / Zhang, while the cost of smuggling links is only about 40 yuan / Zhang, and the difference is 100 yuan or more. The cost of normal customs clearance and smuggling of leather is more than 2000 yuan / piece in terms of mink garments.

Huge interests will inevitably lead to rampant smuggling, and at the same time bring great impact on market order.

The enterprises that lawfully pay taxes can not compete fairly with smuggling enterprises, and induce some enterprises that originally lawfully pay taxes to join the ranks of buying smuggled skins, forming a vicious circle.

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< p > two of the reasons is that the existing fur processing trade policy provides convenient channels for smuggling, and even induces the smuggling behavior to become increasingly fierce.

According to the statistics of China Leather Association, the export delivery value of fur tanning and product enterprises accounted for only 14.2% of the sales value in 2012.

However, according to customs statistics, 4975 tons of raw mink were imported in 2012, of which processing trade accounted for 93.5%, that is to say, a large number of imported leather appeared to be re exported after processing, which is seriously inconsistent with the actual situation of the industry.

This is mainly due to the rampant phenomenon of "fake processing trade", and it has even formed a "one-stop service" of collusion between the domestic and foreign merchants, from the raw material market to the production and processing and the sale of the products.

Because the goods are exempt from customs duties and VAT, the customs can hardly control them in addition to the regulation of individual consumption and cancellation.

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