If the value of clothes mailed from Japan to China exceeds 50 yuan RMB or less, you need to pay import tax, because the threshold for mailing goods from the United States and Japan to China is reduced from 500 yuan to 50 yuan. According to the announcement of the General Administration of Customs, since September 1, the customs has levied import duties on articles mailed by individuals into China according to law, but if the amount of import duties applied for is below RMB 50 yuan (including 50 yuan), the customs shall exempt it. Import duty refers to the tariff levied by the customs of the importing country on its importers when foreign goods are imported. Import duties are usually levied according to customs duties when foreign goods enter the customs territory.

The tax calculation method is: import tax = dutiable price × tax rate. Similarly, taking clothing as an example, if you want to send a coat and a pair of trousers from abroad, the tax is: (300+200)×20%= 100 yuan. Excluding the exemption, you actually have to pay 50 yuan tax. Sending a coat from abroad to return home alone, according to the algorithm, the tax amount is 60 yuan, excluding the exemption amount, and the actual tax amount is 10 yuan. And send a pair of pants separately, tax 40 yuan, no tax.

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Imposing import tax can increase the cost of imported goods, weaken their competitiveness in importing countries' markets and protect the production and economic development of imported goods. Therefore, in the international trade competition, import tax has always been regarded as an important and recognized means of protection. On the one hand, it has the functions of adjusting domestic market demand, adjusting market price and increasing national fiscal revenue. On the other hand, it can also become a tariff barrier, hinder the development of international trade, make the products of domestic protected enterprises dependent, and lack the ability to explore and compete in the international market.

People's Daily Online-20 kinds of goods that are strictly taxed by overseas shopping and mailing back to China are not tax-free.