{"id":14188,"date":"2015-12-10T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/?p=14188"},"modified":"2015-12-10T17:29:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:29:27","slug":"austcham-beijing-on-announcement-of-chaftas-implementation-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/?p=14188","title":{"rendered":"Announcement of ChAFTA&#8217;s Implementation Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dear Members,<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Australia\u2019s Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb AO MP, has announced that the China \u2013 Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) will come into force shortly with the first round of tariff cuts to\u00a0begin on December 20 and a second round on January 1 2016.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>AustCham Chair Tracy Colgan<\/strong>\u00a0has welcomed the news by saying\u00a0<strong>\u201cwe had anticipated that the \u2018exchange of notes\u2019 would happen very soon and implementation shortly thereafter. However, to see it become a reality is a great early Christmas present and the second round of tariff reductions on Jan 1 is just the way to start the new year for Australian Business.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Key facts from the announcement:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0First Round of cuts \u2013 20th December, 2015<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Second Round \u2013 1st January, 2016<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From 1st January 2016 \u2013\u00a086% of goods exports to China (worth more than AUD86 billion in 2014) will enter tariff free and 96% when ChAFTA is fully implemented<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For more information please go to:\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk24178\" href=\"http:\/\/dfat.gov.au\/trade\/agreements\/chafta\/pages\/australia-china-fta.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">http:\/\/dfat.gov.au\/trade\/agreements\/chafta\/pages\/australia-china-fta.aspx<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0j<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the full press release: <a id=\"LPlnk914176\" title=\"http:\/\/trademinister.gov.au\/releases\/Pages\/2015\/ar_mr_151209.aspx Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link\" href=\"http:\/\/trademinister.gov.au\/releases\/Pages\/2015\/ar_mr_151209.aspx\">http:\/\/trademinister.gov.au\/releases\/Pages\/2015\/ar_mr_151209.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members, \u00a0j j Australia\u2019s Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb AO MP, has announced that the China \u2013 Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) will come into force shortly with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14188"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14196,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions\/14196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westchina.austcham.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}