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Beijing Media Top Stories: all about tariffs

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1. China cancels export tariffs on 81 textile products

Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai announced China will no longer impose export tariffs on 81 categories of textile products as of June 1, 2005.  "If some countries have imposed restrictive measures upon China's textile goods, then China needs to revoke export tariffs on these goods, because the country cannot make its textile export shoulder double pressures," said Bo on Monday afternoon at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office.

2.Tariff free fruit from Taiwan appears on Beijing market

3.11 color palates for new Beijing bus to be voted online

4.Beijing to delimit 4 functional regions among current districts and counties

5.The bell from Bastille jail of France is on show in The Temple of Bell of Beijing

The pictured front page is from Beijing Times 京华时报, and features a photo of Bo Xilai was surrounded by lots of journalists after the press conference.

 
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