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Under the Foreign Trade Law, China maintains import prohibitions, on various products, including waste or incandescent lamps on grounds, inter alia, of environmental protection, efficiency improvement, protecting the environment, global climate change response, or in accordance with international commitments

In 2010, 87 tariff lines (at the HS 8-digit level) were subject to non-automatic import licensing, including ozone-depleting substances (with a view to meeting requirements of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer), and specific old mechanical and electronic products (aimed at protecting, among others, the environment

Under the Foreign Trade Law, the State may subject certain goods to state trading, with a view, inter alia, to protect the environment and exhaustible resources

According to the Regulations for the Implementation of the Standardization Law, national and trade standards that are compulsory fall into various categories, including standards for the discharge of pollutants concerning environmental protection, and standards for environmental quality

In order to implement the Law on the Entry and Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine (1991) and the accompanying regulations of 1997, AQSIQ has developed rules covering imports of various products, such as Measures for Supervising and Administering the Quarantine of Wooden Packages of Goods Entering China (AQSIQ Order No. 84) and others

Products listed in the catalogues of products subject to export prohibitions are prohibited from being exported under normal trade, mainly because of China's international obligations and domestic considerations regarding environmental and human health protection, and preservation of natural resources

Export of products consuming too much energy and exhaustible natural resources and causing serious pollution continues to be strictly controlled as an integral part of the ecological and environmental protection measures of the Chinese Government, such as the introduction of export quotas (together with licensing requirement) on rare earth ferroalloy (ex HS 7202.99.91) on 20 May 2011 in order to achieve sustainable development under intensifying pressure from resources and environmental constraints and help conserve natural resources or protect the environment

China's export licensing requirements are implemented mainly to fulfil its obligations under international agreements, including for substances depleting ozone

China maintains state trading on some exports with a view, inter alia, to protect exhaustible and non-recyclable natural resources and the environment

The Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law and the Regulations on the Implementation of the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law establishes preferential tax rates for vehicles and vessels that conserve energy or use new energy, while preferential taxes have been granted on energy-management contract projects for eligible energy services companies, in accordance with the Notice of the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation on Issues Concerning the Value-added Tax, Business Tax and Enterprise Income Tax Policies for Promoting the Development of the Energy Services Sector and incentives are given, under the Enterprise Income Tax Law, for enterprises investing in less developed regions, such as western China, and for investment in activities encouraged by the Government, such as environmental protection and renewable energy in order to, among other things, to promote energy saving and emission reduction