Chinese Government makes the Commitments on Forest Industry for China's Entry WTO

The chief commitments related to the forestry industry in compilation of the legal instruments on China's accession to the World Trade Organization include the following aspects.

1. The major forest products subject to tariffs concessions, about 249 kinds of forest products are involved and reduced the tariffs after entry WTO. According to the regulation of import-export tariff, China will continue to carry out the non-tariffs policy in log, sawnwood, woody pulp and some raw materials. The tariffs of other forest products will also be reduced in varying degrees by the average of 33.5%. Among them, veneer's tariff is cut down from 8% to 5.2%, wood-based panel and wood-wares with small size from 15% to 11.7%, furniture from 22% to 11%, paper and paper board from 18.6% to 12%, paper products from 6% to 3.5%.
2. The forest products import-export management, log has been listed in the limiting categories for exporting. The sawnwood exporter still has limitation on quantity which is distributed the certification by Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of China. At the same time the limiting quantity of import plywood has been abolished without any import permission officially. China will no longer use the set quota three years later after entry WTO.