China is reducing import tariffs on wet-blue leather in 2026 as part of a broader tariff-cutting policy for raw materials used by its textile and leather industries.

China’s government has implemented lower provisional import tariffs on a broad list of 935 products effective January 1, 2026, aiming to reduce costs for key industrial inputs and support domestic manufacturing.

Wet-blue full-grain bovine leather and other chrome-tanned bovine hides see their most-favoured-nation (MFN) tariff cut from 6% to 3% in 2026. Wet-blue sheep and goat skins tariffs are reduced from 14% to 10%.

These measures are provisional tariff cuts (temporarily lower than the standard MFN rates) and are designed to improve supply conditions for China’s leather, apparel and footwear industries during 2026.

China grants MFN tariff treatment to all other WTO members, unless a specific exception applies. Virtually all major trading countries are included in the MFN list.

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