China Cancelled Textile Export Tariffs 

China cancelled export tariffs on outbound textile products as of year 2006, while maintaining its flexible import tariff on cotton that falls outside the import quota.

The export tariff on textile products China imposed in early 2005 was intended to safeguard the normal order of the world's textile trade.

As China reached agreements with both the European Union and the United States on quantitative limits on textile exports to the two markets, it would constitute double curbs on Chinese textile producers and exporters if the export tariffs were remained. 

All export tariffs on textile products has been cancelled from Jan. 1, 2006.

China's flexible tariff on cotton imports outside import quotas were created to maintain the stability of cotton prices in China, and the tariff rates would range from 5% to 40%.

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