Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 2.4
Chna's market access commtments on farm products
subject to tarff rate quotas
Import volume (mmt)
Quota growth In-quota
Out-of-quota tariff
(state trading share, %)
(% p.a.)
tariff (%)
(% as of 1 January)
Real
Quota
Quota
2002 2003 2004
2000
2002
2004
Rice
0.24
3.76
5.32
19
1
74
71
65
(100)
a
(50)
(50)
Wheat
0.87
8.45
9.64
8
1
71
68
65
(100)
(90)
(90)
Maize
0
5.70
7.20
13
1
71
68
65
(100)
(67)
(60)
Cotton
0.05
0.82
0.89
5
1
54.4
47.2 40
(100)
(33)
(33)
Wool
b
0.30
0.34
0.37
5
1
38
38
38
Sugar
c
0.64
1.68
1.95
8
20
90
72
50
a
Figures in parentheses are the percentage of non-state trading in the import quota.
b
Designated trading in 2002-04 and phased out thereafter.
c
Phased out quota for state trade.
Source:
World Trade Organization, 2001.
China's WTO Protocol of Accession
, November,
World Trade Organization, Geneva; National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2001.
China
Statistical Yearbook
, China Statistics Press, Beijing.
per cent of the total value of producton of a basc agrcultural product
(compared with 10 per cent for other developing countries). Moreover,
measures such as nvestment subsdes for farmers and nput subsdes for
the poor and other resource-scarce farmers, which are generally available
for policymakers to use in other developing countries, are not allowed in
China—that is, China must include any such support as part of its aggregate
level of support, which should be less than 8.5 per cent of agricultural
output value.
Because of its socialist background and the difficulty that the world has
had n assessng the scope of the government's nterventon n busness
dealings of all types, China agreed to a series of measures governing
the way t deals wth the rest of the world n cases of ant-dumpng and
