A Study On Chinese Agricultural Products Tariff Concession

Tariff concession is the result of the trade liberalization and it is also an important part of the market access in the WTO negotiation. Tariff concession will affect the domestic price, the advantage of producer, the welfare of consumer and the revenue of government, directly and indirectly. The direct effect is that tariff concession will depress the protect level of the agriculture and it will impact on the domestic agricultural market. Nowadays, as a WTO member, China should comply with the WTO regulations and Chinese agricultural tariff must be cut according to the cutting formulae. In the new round negotiation, how to reduce the tariff is still the focus. Because of the short negotiation time and shortage of the experience, every member countries try to make good use of their right to constitute the regular for their own profit. They have respective proposals for the tariff reduction, because they have different aim and expectation.The paper studies the question about the tariff concession of Chinese agricultural product. Firstly, raise the question of study, we sum up many national and domestic research, base on the research we can find the problems and try to solve them; secondly, sum up the negotiating cause, objectives, course, Analysis of the negotiations on agriculture tariff concession since the Doha Round, and study the tariff structure of world agricultural products from five aspects, they include tariff structure, tariff peaks, water tariffs, tariff escalation, non-ad valorem tax. The results show there are many problems on the world tariff, such as tariff peaks, tariff escalation and so on; Thirdly, Base on 2005 China's average import tariff, utilizes the Revealed Comparative Advantage Index (RCA) to study China's agricultural tariff protection; Fourthly, analysis the main negotiating groups and their proposals, and then find out the best strategy for China; Fifthly, utilized ATPSM to analyze the influences which are brought to China by the scenarios of the reform of agricultural tariff reduction policies that were put forward to by the main negotiators, such as USA, EU and G20. In the end, aiming at the fact and problems of Chinese agricultural tariff concession, and combining with the reform trend of Doha Round Agriculture Negotiations, the paper has brought forward the advices to improve Chinese agricultural tariff concession.