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Q: anyone knows how much are the import tax for food?
thinking to open an italian grocery store either in Shanghai or Hangzhou, where people could also sit down and enjoy coffee and so on. Does anyone knows how much tax i have to pay to import packaging food from Italia?
10 years 44 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
This duty calculator seems to do the trick
http://www.dutycalculator.com/new-import-duty-and-tax-calculation/
Hehe, I said duty
There are quite a few foreigners here in Kunming who have done this, including Italians. You could possibly join the Go Kunming website and ask some questions 
Some problems that you will be faced with:
As a food outlet, you will be faced with licencing restrictions over and above normal business licences for trading companies. I can tell you from experience, getting a licence to provide food in China is a bureaucratic nightmare and expensive.
Secondly, if you import food goods yourself, you always run the risk of your commodities being rejected or seized at the Chinese border. Expect at the very least to lose some of the commodities through pilfering by port inspectors.
Import tariffs are not a clear issue as some areas operate duty free or free trade policies. That you can discuss with import and export agents.
I would think the quantity of product that you would require could be picked up from independent wholesalers anyway. Doing things that way may save you an enormous amount of stress related to import restrictions and licences. Some commodities can even be picked up from wholesalers operating through sites like Taobao.
Listen, my dear little pasta tartuffe, you sweet little pizza presto of a guy, there are major, major importers of Italian goods in Shanghai. Why not contact one of them?
