Interpretation of "waste paper import ban"
Edit Date:2018-06-12
China has officially notified the World Trade Organization that it will no longer accept foreign garbage by the end of this year. What do you mean by foreign garbage? China officially notified the World Trade Organization on Tuesday that it would no longer accept foreign waste, including waste plastic, paper, waste slag and textiles, by the end of the year. The ban will take effect at the end of 2017. What is garbage? Foreign garbage trade began in the early 1980s, mainly smuggling developed countries to China waste clothing. The second flood in the early 1990s, mainly smuggling developed countries out of all kinds of consumer electronics, used to television, computers. With the expansion of the scope of application of Article 155 of the National Criminal Law, the import of electronic, medical, clothing and other wastes shall be punished by the crime of smuggling. In view of the increasingly serious pollution hazards of foreign garbage, in 1995, our country enacted the Environmental Prevention and Control Law of solid waste pollution, and set up a special chapter to bring the import of foreign waste into the scope of legal management, and defined foreign waste as "solid waste" for the first time. The following year, China imposes administrative licensing on the import of "solid waste" and issues an import catalogue to regulate the total quantity and variety of imports each year. Paper industry exclusive interpretation of the "waste paper import ban" in the face of "foreign waste" ban, many are using the waste of paper colleagues can not help asking: is foreign waste to be banned? Please see the industry's exclusive interpretation of this incident. Paper industry insiders think that waste should be banned, of course, the answer is no. First of all, it is not in line with state policy. Waste paper is the most important and most used raw material in the world papermaking industry. The use of waste paper is in line with the requirements of circular economy and sustainable development and is the mode of production encouraged by the state. Secondly, the procedure is unreasonable. As an important trade policy, China (Ministry of Commerce) must first seek the opinions of industry organizations and enterprises before submitting applications to wto. Paper industry internal reference to understand that there is no outside waste-using enterprises received the relevant comments. Third, the data do not match. In 2016, China alone imported 28.5 million tons of waste paper, far more than the "7.3 million tons" of garbage imports given in the document. From this point of view, our document refers to garbage imports and normal use of qualified waste is not a category. At present, the state is carrying out the action of "cracking down on the environmental illegal behavior of enterprises engaged in the processing and utilization of imported waste according to law", which will cause the quantity of foreign waste imports to continue to decline. In the future, unsorted waste paper, various types of mixed waste paper may be banned. So, in the face of the ban on the import of waste paper, how should paper enterprises deal with it? First, it is necessary to establish stable channels for waste utilization. Second, to increase domestic waste paper use. Third, in the case of tight raw materials, price increase is inevitable, enterprises want to control the cost of production, we must master new technology as soon as possible.
The ban on imports begins at the end of 2017, but paper companies using waste paper or foreign waste paper suppliers have to deal with it earlier, according to the paper industry news agency. For papermaking enterprises: change the structure of raw materials, choose to shift to the national waste market, or higher grade imported waste paper varieties. For foreign waste paper suppliers, one is to invest more cost to select cleaner and reusable waste paper, the other is to transfer more waste paper to landfill or incineration. At present, the market has made some reaction to the government's action to strictly control the import of solid waste raw materials. According to customs statistics, China imported 4707900090 tons of mixed paper from January to May 2017), about 2.3579 million tons, down about 5.66 tons from a year earlier. In the same period, China's cumulative import of waste paper is about 12.4821 million tons, an increase of about 5.73. According to the data it is estimated that the import of mixed waste paper is about 1/6 and the import of mixed waste paper will be reduced by about 5 million tons every year after the import of mixed waste paper is prohibited. In the future, the total amount of China's imported waste paper will be significantly reduced. The resulting raw material gap in China's paper industry is expected to be largely filled by the national waste market, and there may be more demand for raw pulp in the future. The American Association of waste Recycling Industries warned that it was affected by Chinese government policy after the wto announced a ban on imports from the Chinese government. The global waste recovery industry is likely to be hit. ISri warned in particular that the policy could result in the collapse of companies in the U.S. waste recovery industry and the loss of jobs. In order to crack down on the import of foreign garbage, all localities have started to act as one of the most important ports for importing waste raw materials in the whole country, which is an important position for all departments to strengthen the management of imported solid wastes and to crack down on various illegal activities. A few days ago, Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau returned a batch of solid waste named "Aluminium scrap", which is the 73rd batch of solid waste in 2017. It is understood that the goods from Australia, a total of 18.58 tons. At the time of inspection, the Bureau found that the goods were not up to the national environmental control standard mandatory requirements, and then issued a certificate for return handling. At the Hangzhou Customs Fuyang Dongzhou Supervision and Control Point, the customs inspector can clearly see the waste paper in the container through the non-intrusive inspection of H986 equipment. Nowadays, the containers imported by Fuyang papermaking enterprises, which are filled with waste paper, must slowly drive into the inspection room and be scanned by large detection instruments on both sides of the container for a "full-body x-ray scan". On April 5, Shenzhen Customs received clues that a Henan company had declared imports from a country in the Middle East and that goods called "artificial graphite materials" were suspected of smuggling solid waste prohibited by the state. After receiving the clue, the Shenzhen Customs immediately took action and confirmed that the 1002.5 tons of "artificial graphite material" seized was a solid waste "foreign waste"-electrolytic aluminum anode carbon residue-which the state explicitly prohibited from importing. Shandong Huangdao Inspection and Quarantine Bureau detected a batch of waste paper imported from the United States containing medical waste, with a total weight of 615 tons, which was handed over to the Customs for repatriation and handling. The used transfusion pipes (including residual liquid, oxygen pipes and other medical wastes) in the goods are all prohibited from mixing as specified in the national standard. Attached: China will ban import of solid waste in 4 categories, 24 categories by the end of 2017)
