Manufacturing Industry

CHINA MAY EASE PLASTICS TARIFFS.

Plastics News, April, 1999 by Toloken, Steve

WASHINGTON -- In negotiations to join the World Trade Organization, the Chinese government may have backed away from its demands to maintain high tariffs on plastics, industry officials said. China and the United States are far from reaching agreement on U.S. approval of China's entry into WTO, but China has given a qualified agreement to lower tariffs to worldwide norms for most plastics, said Lori Anderson, director of economic and international trade issues for the Washington-based Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.

China apparently gave itself an out by saying that if India does not agree to some tariff reductions, China may reconsider, she said. India is not likely to agree to the changes. The proposal calls for most plastics tariffs to drop to...

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