China Makes Condoms More Expensive To Boost Birth Rates
(Beijing) - China's government is imposing a value-added tax (VAT) on contraception as part of a policy to reverse the country's declining birth rates, according to reports. Under the plan, citizens would pay a 13% levy on contraceptive drugs and devices for the first time 1993, Bloomberg reported. The government seeks to reverse a population decline that has occurred for three consecutive years.
Posted 12/10/25
