Tariff Quotas for Import of Chemical Fertilizers for 2009      

On October 10th, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced the tariff quotas for imports of chemical fertilizers for 2009.
   The total amount of tariff quotas is 3.30 million tons for urea (2.97 million tons for state-owned traders), 6.90 million tons for di-ammonium phosphate (3.52 million tons for state-owned traders) and 3.45 million tons for compound fertilizers (1.76 million tons for state-owned traders).
   Upon the current operation, capacity, production and sales of traders, the MOC will distribute the quotas amount for imports of chemical fertilizers next year between traders. The tariff rate within tariff quotas is 1% and the tariff rate beyond tariff quotas is 50%.