China Adjusts Tariff Assessment Method For Certain Chicken, Lowers Other Duties

A change included in China’s recently released annual tariff adjustment plan will revise how the country applies duties on certain poultry products and will temporarily lower tariffs on certain fish, nuts, fats and wood products, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service said in a Jan. 5 report. USDA said China will begin calculating most favored nation tariffs on certain frozen chicken products by applying the tariff on the import value rather than by volume. The country also will temporarily lower duties on frozen blue whiting, cashew, linseed, sunflower seed, cocoa fat, homogenized composite food and certain products.