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More food allowed in the cross-border online business
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Ministry of Finance has included nutritional supplements, liquid dairy products and fresh fruit into a positive list which retailers are allowed to sell through cross-border e-commerce websites.
A total of 151 types of products are included in addition to the initial version of the positive list, which was released a week earlier, according to a statement on the Ministry’s official website on Friday.
The Ministry added that tax cost under the new scheme is generally lower than the parcel tax, which is still applicable on goods brought through luggage and personal mail bags through mail routes, and that the new scheme has a limited impact on the price level of mass consumer products.
It also reiterated that parcel tax is not for trade purposes, which is why the new scheme should be introduced for cross-border e-commerce vendors to streamline regulation and to support traditional importers alike.
Retailers such as German's Metro AG had to halt sales of imported liquid milk on its official Tmall store following the release of the first version of the position list.
It said in a separate statement last Wednesday that infant milk formula imported through online channels would not require registration documents from the food and drug administration until January 1, 2018.
Starting April 8, the former parcel tax of between 10 percent and 50 percent on imports sold via domestic websites was replaced with the 17 percent value-added tax and consumption duties, where applicable, with a 30 percent discount of the total tax payment.
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