G/C/W/656/Add.1  
WT/COMTD/N/39/Add.2  
 
21 November 2016  
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Council for Trade in Goods  
Committee on Trade and Development  Original: English  
 
 CHINA' S DUTY -FREE QUOTA -FREE PROGRAMME  FOR LDCS 
COMMUNICATION FROM CHINA  
Addendum  
The following communication has been received from the delegation of China on 
11 November  2016 for circulation to WTO Members.  
 
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China’s Duty -Free Quota -Free (DFQF) Program me is a non -reciprocal tariff preference treatment 
for Least Developed Countries ("LDCs"). The Program me was launched on 1 July 2010.1 Currently, 
the Program me covers Products of 80 47 tariff lines (8 -didit level),  accounting for 97% of all t ariff 
lines of China. According to  the statistics  from China ’s General Administration of Customs , LDC’s  
export to China enjoying zero -tariff treatment is  US$25.5billion in 2015, accounting for 85% of 
China’s total imports from these countries.  
 
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1 The Programme was notified in documents WT /COMTD/N/39 and 
G/C/W/656/Rev.1 -WT/COMTD/N/39/Add.1/Rev.1. As per the establishe d procedure, the notification was 
considered at the Council for Trade in Goods meeting of 7 November 2011, and the meetings  of the 
Sub-Committee on LDCs of 19 October 2011 and 16 April 2012.  G/C/W/656/Add.1 • WT/COMTD/N/39/Add.2  
 
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  NOTIFICATION OF PREF ERENTIAL TRADE ARRANGEMENT  
1. Notifying Member:  China  
 
2. Date of notification:  11 November 2016  
 
3. Notification p rovision in the Transparency Mechanism for Preferential Trade 
Arrangements  (WT/L/806) : 
[  ] Paragraph 1 (a) 
(PTAs falling under paragraph 2 of the Enabling Clause, with the exce ption of 
paragraph  2(c)) 
[X] Paragraph 1 (b) 
(PTAs taking the form of preferential treatment accorded by any Member to products of 
least developed countries)  
[  ] Paragraph 1 (c) 
(Any other non -reciprocal preferential treatment to products authorised under the WTO 
Agreement)  
 
4. Number of beneficiaries (including of any sub -schemes):  41 countries, including 
Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic 
Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Er itrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, 
Guinea -Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, 
Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, United Republic 
of Tanzania, Z ambia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh2, Lao People's Democratic Republic2 3, 
Myanmar3, Nepal, The Gambia, Timor -Leste, Vanuatu, Yemen, Republic of South Sudan . 
 
5. Date of entry into force: 1 July 2010  
 
6. Date of last renewal (if applicable):  1 January 2015  
 
7. Brief description of the Preferential Trade Agreement:  Duty-free treatment for 
LDCs.  
 
8. Text and any related  instruments (e.g. regulations, annexes, schedules, 
protocols) are : 
[ ] submitted to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)  
[x] available from the following official Internet link(s):  
http://www.customs.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab49661/info782948.htm  
http://www.customs.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab49659/info781226.htm   
http://www.customs.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab49661/info729040.htm  
 
Rules of origin and Related Procedures on Goods Eligible for Duty -free 
Treatment  
http://www.customs.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab49660/info623255.htm  
http://www.customs.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab49660/info551080.htm  
 
 
 
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2 Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement.  
3 China -ASEAN Free Trade Agreemen t.