The reason for the formation of the low tariff situation in modern China

The Chinese modern customs was set up according to the stipulation of the unequal treaties after The Opium War. On the eve of 1845, the five treaty ports were opened up according to the stipulation of the Chinese and English "Nanjing Treaty" all levied foreign tax. However ,modern China was always in the low tariff situation, it became one of the Chinese customs' unnormal states. It is just put forward the reason for the situation's forming and analyzed it on the three sides in this paper. Chinese modern customs became the tool which safeguarded and developed the big imperialist powers' benefits. Because of the special history background of its establishment, the big imperialist powers must lower tariff in order to meet their respective demands. The loss of Chinese modern tariff autonomy and the agreed tariff which the big imperialist forced on Qing government were the direct reason for the situation's forming . The big imperialist worked out kinds of restriction against amending tariff determined that modern China always was in the low tariff situation.