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blogs.ft.com — Chinese customs regulations have stipulated that travelers can bring in limited amounts of goods for their own use tax-free for years but the China Customs website warns that travelers carrying an iPad must pay a Rmb1000 in import tax, and a host of other electronics devices will also be taxed even if brought in for personal use.

www.china-briefing.com — The General Administration of Customs announced that it will impose import tax on personal mail starting in September.

www.grapewallofchina.com — For anyone living in China or visiting, if you enjoy a daily glass of red wine with your dinner, at times, it can get expensive.Chinese wine is famous for being undrinkable or at least using the title of "wine" very loosely (sorry, but it's true). So you are dependent on foreign imports which can get quite expensive due to high import tax.

wangbo.canalblog.com — A copy of "Beijing Daily" that's already been read can produce four pencils, one ton of waste newspapers can produce 20,000 pencils. A privately owned science and technology company in Daxing District is successfully using waste newspapers to make pencils, producing altogether 33,000,000 paper-made pencils last year, saving the equivalent of 1500 cubic metres of wood.