Taxonomy: Affected Trading Partner - Fiji
China: VAT rebates for more than 2600 products
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On 3 June 2009, the government of China raised the Value Added Tax (VAT) rebates for designated textile and garment exports. Exporters of the benefiting products may recuperate part of the VAT included in intermediate products.China: VAT rebate of 15 percent for textile products
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On 1 February 2009, the government of China raised the Value Added Tax (VAT) rebates for designated textile and garment exports.China: Increased VAT rebates for 553 products
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On 1 January 2009, the government of China raised the Value Added Tax (VAT) rebates for designated exports. Exporters of the benefiting products may recuperate up to 80 percent of the VAT included in intermediate products.China: Increased VAT rebates for food, textiles, wood products, metals, chemicals and machinery
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On 1 December 2008, the government of China raised the Value Added Tax (VAT) rebates for designated exports. Exporters of the benefiting products may recuperate up to 80 percent of the VAT included in intermediate products.United States of America: Reauthorization of GSP, increase in import fee, and expansion of Trade Adjustment Assistance
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Both houses of Congress have approved, and the president will soon sign into law, an untitled bill (H.R.2832) providing for the retroactive rIndia: Extension of export promotion scheme to certain phones and integrated circuits
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On 19 February 2009, the government of India extended its "Hi-tech Product Export Promotion Scheme" to the exporters of certain phones and integrated circuits.EC: Temporary suspension of import tariffs for an exceptional tariff quota of sugar
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On 28 March 2011 the European Commission announced a temporary suspension for an exceptional tariff quota of sugar of 300 tonnes (HS:1701) for the marketing year 2010/2011.Republic of Korea: Temporary reduction of import tariff on certain foods and alcohol
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According to the Permanent Delegation of Korea to the WTO, the government of Korea has temporarily lowered its import tariffs on coffee, fish, frozen orange juice, milk powder, pork, soap, and lauryl alcohol.United States of America: Reduced excise taxes for domestic but not imported micro-brewery beer
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Senator John Kerry (Democrat of Massachusetts) and a bipartisan group of 18 other senators have introduced a bill that woulChina: Export tariff increase for fertilizers
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On 29 November 2010 the Chinese State Council Customs Tariff Commission announced new export tariffs (110%) for fertilizers. This measure came into effect on 1 December 2010.











