The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs, the State Administration of Taxation and the National Energy Administration, have recently jointly issued a notice to adjust the relevant catalogue of tax policies for the import of major technical equipment. The “Catalogue of Major technical equipment and Products supported by the State for Development (2025 edition)”, “Catalogue of Key Parts and raw Materials for Major Technical Equipment and Products to be Imported (2025 edition)” and “Catalogue of Major Technical equipment and products to be imported without duty exemption (2025 edition)” involved in the notice shall be implemented as of March 1st,2025. Therein, the following metallurgical equipment listed in this catalogue of major technical equipment and products to be imported without duty exemption (2025edition)
1.Scraper reclaimer
2.Melting and separation electric furnace equipment
3.Electric furnace wall carbon-oxygen lance system, automatic temperature measurement and sampling robot, automatic steel tapping and slag detection, scrap steel preheating equipment,
4.Cold rolling tube mill
5.High-pressure roller mill
6.Roller forming machine
7.Ball mill
8.Vertical stirred mill
9.Shaft boring machine
10.Boom-type roadheader
11.Billet, round billet, slab, and special-shaped billet continuous casting machines for various steel grades
12.Seamless tube rolling mill
13.Cold and hot continuous strip rolling mill
14.Plate rolling mill
15.Section steel rolling mill
16.Wire rod rolling mill
17.Blooming mill
18.Spiral weld pipe mill
19.Converter equipment
20 Ladle refining equipment
21.Coking oven equipment, pelletizing equipment, sintering equipment
22.Blast furnace blower
23.Steelmaking electric furnace
24.Resistance welding machine
25.Arc welding machine
26.High-frequency longitudinal seam welding pipe unit (including uncoiler, pinch leveler, shear and butt welder, horizontal spiral looper, edge milling machine, forming machine, sizing mill, flying saw, facing and chamfering machine, milling and cutting saw, hydrostatic testing machine, pipe straightening machine, length measurement and weighing, marking device, high-frequency welder, medium-frequency induction heating device)
27.Turn control roll with pressure roller, emulsion spraying device for rolling mill, strip blowing device, and anti-wrap guide plate
28.Vacuum circulation degassing process for molten steel Dry (mechanical pump) vacuum system