Recently, there is a piece of good news for Quanzhou stone enterprises, the imports rate of marble, limestone will reduce. Fujian is the power province of import materials, which could get the preferential tariff. In a certain extent, it not only reduces the cost pressure of the enterprise, but also improves the bargaining space of stone product.

According to the announcement no. 63 in 2012 from General Administration of Customs, the temporary tariff rate goods, which compared with 2012, increased the temporary tariff rate for 47 items of imported goods (the temporary tariff rate refers to the policy arrangement of further tax reduction on the basis of the most favored nation rate for certain goods in the certain year), the dolomite of the new duty paragraph for 25181000 and 25182000, the annual most-favoured-nation rate of this commodity is 3%, the temporary tariff rate is 1%. While the marble, limestone and dolomite can be used as the building materials for alternative. According to the customs, this policy is expected to save tax over ten million RMB for the enterprise of Quanzhou area which imports the dolomite.

In 2012, the import stone quantity of Haicang port in Xiamen realized the breakthrough, which is the first time to be more than 3 million tons with 3.6017 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 24.67%. There were total 10927 batches of the import stone, a year-on-year increase of 14.89%. The marble were imported 2.8711 million tons, which accounted for 80% of the total imports.