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Top China airlines to ignore EU carbon tax, body says
Source: BBC
5 January 2012 Last updated at 13:51 GMT
Top China airlines to ignore EU carbon tax, body says
China's biggest airlines will not pay a new European Union tax aimed at cutting carbon emissions, their trade body has said.
On 1 January, the EU brought airlines under its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which levies a charge on flights based on their carbon emissions.
Chai Haibo of the China Air Transport Association said that its members would not co-operate with the ETS.
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Airlines which do not comply with the new EU tax can be fined and even prohibited from flying into the region.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16421117
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