Also some products—eggs, tobacco, sugar and salt—will be partially protected through tariff quotas, whereby higher tariffs will apply to imports above certain quotas.

It attributed the fall of import to limited import tariff quotas for domestic textile enterprises, adding that the international cotton prices were still not favorable enough.

The corresponding import tax items, tariff serial Numbers and applicable tax rates for agricultural goods subject to the administration of import tariff quotas shall be promulgated separately.