894 Thousand Tons! Cotton Import Continued To Implement Quota Management In 2020

According to the Interim Measures for the administration of import tariff quotas for agricultural products (Ministry of Commerce, national development and Reform Commission No. fourth, 2003), the national development and Reform Commission formulated the rules for the application and distribution of import tariff quotas for cotton in 2020. This means that China will continue to implement quota management in the cotton import market in 2020.

The announcement is as follows:

Quota quantity

In 2020, the total import tariff quota of cotton was 894 thousand tons, of which 33% was the state trade quota.

Two. Application conditions

In 2020, the basic conditions for the application of the import tariff quota for cotton were: registration before the market supervision department before October 1, 2019; good financial status, tax records and integrity; since 2018, there has been no illegal record in customs and so on; it has not been blacklisted in the "credit China" website.

On the premise of having the above conditions, the applicant is returned. One of the following conditions must be met:

1. State trading enterprises;

2, spinning equipment (own) 50 thousand or more cotton spinning enterprises;

3, the annual production capacity of cotton spunlaced nonwovens (owned) 8000 tons or more, the production line of spunlace machine width less than 3 meters (including) is recognized as 2000 tons, and the production capacity of the width of the production line is 3 tons, 4000 tons.

Three, application materials

(1) the import tariff quota application form of cotton in 2020 can be downloaded from the website of the national development and Reform Commission (http://www.ndrc.gov.cn).

(two) a photocopy of the business license (duplicate) of an enterprise legal person.

(three) a special VAT invoice for sale of cotton, cotton and other cotton products in 2018.

Four, the principle of distribution

(1) distribution according to the actual production and operation capability of the applicant enterprise (including historical import performance, production capacity, operation situation, etc.) and other relevant commercial standards.

(two) the quota application and distribution do not distinguish between general trade and processing trade. When the national development and Reform Commission (hereinafter referred to as the entrusted institution) of the national development and Reform Commission commissioned the enterprise to issue quotas for agricultural products import quotas to enterprises that have obtained quotas, the enterprises themselves shall choose to determine the mode of trade.

Five, application time limit

(1) application for enterprises October 15, 2019 - October 30th Submit application materials to the entrusting institution where the registration is located.

(two) the entrusted institution will deliver the application materials to the national development and Reform Commission (government service hall) before November 15, 2019, and report it to the Ministry of Commerce. At the same time, the information contained in the import tariff quota application form of cotton will be uploaded to the tariff quota management system for agricultural products. Overdue will no longer be accepted.

Six. Publicity stage

(1) in order to facilitate the public to assist the national development and Reform Commission to verify the authenticity of the information submitted by the applicant, the national development and Reform Commission will publicize the application for enterprise information on the official website (the public notice period and the submission of opinions will be stipulated in the public notice).

(two) during the public notice period, any entity can report the authenticity of the information disclosed. After the expiration of the time limit for public opinion reporting, the national development and Reform Commission will entrust the entrusted agency which has been applied for the registration of enterprises to verify the application.

(three) during the period of verification, the enterprises applying for reporting will have the right to raise objections to the entrusted agencies through written and other related issues. After examining the objections raised by the enterprises to be reported and completing the investigation and verification, the entrusted agencies shall feedback the verification status to the national development and Reform Commission on the authenticity of the reports.

Seven. Other rules

(1) the enterprise is responsible for the authenticity of its application materials and information, and the relevant departments will take corresponding disciplinary measures in accordance with the relevant regulations of the state for false reporting or refusing to fulfil their promises made in the application form.

(two) the cotton imported by the enterprise through the import tariff quota of the imported cotton shall be processed and operated by the enterprise and shall not be resale.

(three) enterprises with cotton import tariff quotas should actively cooperate with the national development and Reform Commission and their entrusted institutions to organize the application and supervision of the import tariff quota of cotton, and provide timely and reliable data needed for inspection.

(four) the fraudulent application forms and the falsification of cotton import tariff quotas and the failure to carry out import businesses in accordance with the regulations shall be seized and their quota certificates shall be collected and their future import tariff quotas and sliding tax quotas for cotton shall be restricted in accordance with the regulations.

(five) the enterprises that forge, alter or trade the certificate of import tariff quota of agricultural products shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.