Since July 1st, the import tariff of the eight categories of consumer goods has decreased by an average of 55.9%.

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Since July 1, Chengdu Port has been synchronized with the whole country to reduce the tariff rates on imported consumer goods with 1,449 tariff items, as well as on vehicle and parts. In July 20th, Chengdu customs explained the new round of tax reduction, which covered 8 kinds of daily consumer goods, including food, clothing and shoes, shoes and hats, furniture supplies, daily department stores, style and entertainment, household electronics, daily necessities, medical health and other kinds of consumer goods, with an average drop of 55.9%, of which the drop of medicine was as high as 91.6%.

What benefits will the tariff drop bring to Sichuan's consumer market?  What are the benefits that the citizens can enjoy? The reporter investigated it.

Wang Lin reporter Li Xinyi

1 the range and decline of tax reduction are the most historical

"This tax cut involves a large number of imported consumer goods, with a large reduction." Chengdu customs officials analyzed the characteristics of the tax reduction in three aspects.

Large scale. It includes 218 taxable items of vehicle and parts, and 1449 tax items for consumer goods.

The drop is big. The average tariff rate of consumer goods related to tax reduction dropped from 15.7% to 6.9%, with an average fall of 55.9%.

Tax reduction commodities are closely related to people's daily life.  According to the results of the report on the statistics and analysis of the supply and demand of major consumer goods published by the Ministry of Commerce, the top 10 consumer goods that consumers are most concerned about are all in the scope of the tax reduction. The average tariff rate of clothing, shoes, hats, kitchens and physical fitness supplies fell from 15.9% to 7.1%; the average tariff rate of household appliances, such as washing machines and refrigerators, fell from 20.5% to 8%, and processed foods such as aquaculture, fishing and mineral water dropped from 15.2% to 6.9%; washing supplies and cosmetics, hair beauty, and some medical health classes The product dropped from 8.4% to 2.9%; canned fruit, nuts and so on fell from 30% to 5%; jewellery and imitation jewelry dropped from 35% to 10%; gas water heaters dropped from 35% to 8%; the average rate of health care was reduced from 5.5% to 0.3%. Alcohol free beer tariffs fell the most, with the tax rate falling from 35% to 5%, down 30 percentage points.

"Tax reduction policy will bring a series of positive benefits to consumers." Chengdu Customs responsible person analysis, tax reduction released the positive signal, is conducive to the expansion of imports, the market on the variety of imported consumer goods will be more rich, not only to meet the diversity of the consumer choice, but also to a certain extent to promote the market price reduction.

2 there is a lag effect from the tax reduction to the price reduction market

July 11, reporters in Itoyo Huatang Chunxi Road store imported food area to see, a can of New Zealand formula baby milk powder marked 439 yuan. Yang Yan, a salesperson, told reporters that the price tag was in May, and no price notice has yet been received.

Reporters visited a number of cross-border e-commerce supermarkets and retail terminals found that the retail prices of imported consumer goods were not significantly adjusted.

From the imported cosmetics, the new policy of reducing taxes has a lagging effect, and the products from customs declaration to consumers generally need half a year, and the products sold are basically stock in Sichuan. Most of the consumer goods that are subject to tax reduction belong to "hot purchase" commodities. If imported products are more expensive, after this tariff reduction, there will be much more room for price reduction. Take a brand case and bag as an example. If the import declaration price is 1000 yuan, the tariff and the value-added tax should be paid 392 yuan before the tax reduction, and only 276 yuan will be paid after the tax reduction, and 116 yuan is reduced.

Feng Xuebin, the head of the health promotion center (milk powder store), Feng Xuebin, the imported milk powder has not been informed by the manufacturer at present, but also through internal cost accounting and other series of processes.

Reporters in Tmall international, Jingdong and other brands of flagship stores and purchase special stores found that many brands have been out of price reminding, its official straight shops, import taxes are mostly borne by merchants, the price is larger than the line under the retail side has a greater advantage.

According to Chengdu Customs analysis, in the first half of this year, 433 items of commodities were declared and imported from the Chengdu Customs area, which involved a tax reduction list of consumer goods for daily use, with a tax of 73.99 million yuan. The main products are drugs, clothing textiles, aquatic products, bags, small household appliances, etc.

Medical commodities are the most concerned in the tax reduction. Although the number of drug tax items is not large, the rate of tax reduction is as high as 91.6%. After the adjustment, in addition to some kinds of alkaloid drugs such as some kinds of alkaloids, the vast majority of common drugs including anticancer drugs, as well as the Chinese patent medicines with actual imports, have achieved zero tariff.

On -15 July 1st, 118 items of tax items, including drugs, clothing textiles, aquatic products, bags and small household appliances, were imported from the Chengdu district to import 118 items of tax items in the tax reduction list of 1449 items of daily consumption goods. The import value is 24 million 567 thousand yuan, the tax payment is 4 million 201 thousand and 800 yuan, and the tax deduction is 320 thousand yuan. The maximum tax reduction range is mineral water and clothing, and the tax reduction rate is 42% and 33%.

3 consumers take a wait-and-see attitude towards upgrading local industries

As far as cars are concerned, they are small to lipsticks, and this tax reduction is related to the "pocket" of the public. So what dividends will be released by this wave of tax reduction?

The person in charge of Chengdu Customs said that the tax reduction dividends need to be conducted at the level of level, and the tax reduction dividends also need foreign brand production enterprises and import dealers to transfer to consumers. The price of imported consumer goods decreases because of tariff reduction, which is not so obvious as that of automobiles. Reacting to the tariff decline