Free Trade Agreements with China

China has concluded free trade agreements with many countries e.g. Pakistan, Chile, Jordan, Thailand and other ASEAN members to be fully effective by 2010 - 2015. China's Free Trade Agreements with Australia, New Zealand and India are being negotiated or proposed. Reduced import tariff rates may be applied to certain commodities imported from FTA countries into China.

China had in 2002 introduced lower tariff rates for more than 700 items originated from members of the Bangkok Agreement e.g. Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Under the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), zero tariff rates are applied to imported commodities fulfilling origin requirements from Hong Kong and Macao SARs.