A : → According to TDC Research EU Market Profile, the EU is expected to introduce a new scheme of generalised tariff preferences (GSP) to expire by end-2008. Under the new GSP scheme, the Chinese mainland will remain a beneficiary. The new scheme will classify products into two categories, namely sensitive products that enjoy the benefits of reduced tariff rates by 3.5 percentage points, and non-sensitive products that enjoy total tariff suspension. But a number of mainland-origin items, including plastics and rubber, paper items, consumer electronics, timepieces, jewellery, textiles, clothing, certain chemicals, articles of leather and furskins, footwear, glass and ceramic products, base metals, furniture, and toys, games and sporting goods, are expected to be excluded from the preference scheme.
Q : → I want to know for those electronic products, such as cassette recorders and voice recorders that are shipping to EU are still have the tariff reduction function by the China GSP Form A since 2006 Jan 1st. Will the China GSP Form A still available to apply and function? I need your advice and thanks a lot for your help!
