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Import Regulations: Scrap Materials

Source: Market Access and Compliance, AQSIQ

On January 1, 2004, China's State General Administration for Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) started accepting applications for temporary registration of scrap material supply enterprises. AQSIQ set the deadline for registration at August 1, 2004. AQSIQ has posted two lists of approved applications (see below). Companies that have not registered, or whose applications were not approved, will not be permitted to import scrap materials into China after January 1, 2005. AQSIQ has not yet announced a date for reopening the approval process for new applications.

Abbreviated details and documents in English can be found at AQSIQ:

Notice 48 (implementing rules with most of the substantive requirements):
http://www.aqsiq.gov.cn/cms/data/1671/10300_2004-48-E_040707.doc

Notice 115 (the original policy referred to in Notice 48):
http://www.aqsiq.gov.cn/cms/data/1671/10300_2003-115-E_040707.doc

Announcement 159 (sets the implementation date of policy for January 1,2005 - after January 1, shipments from unregistered companies will not be accepted.*)
http://www.aqsiq.gov.cn/cms/template/item.html?did=1144&cid=1671\12359

A list of current approved applicants is available at:
http://www.aqsiq.gov.cn/cms/data/1671/12359_mingdan.pdf

Announcement 202 (extension to the list of approved applicants)
http://www.aqsiq.gov.cn/cms/template/item.html?did=1144&cid=1671\13357

Full details in Mandarin can be found at http://www.aqsiq.gov.cn/cms/template/item.html?did=25&cid=25\10884

*According to Announcement No. 159 from the Administration for Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), the Chinese entry-exit authorities will only accept and process the import request for waste material from registered suppliers. This January 1, 2005 deadline is not a deadline for registration. A company may still apply for a registration number on its own. Visit http://www.ccc-us.com/aqsiq.htm to find out more on how to apply for a registration number.

UPDATE: Please note that starting on May 19, 2005, China will institute a ban on the iron and steel processing trade. Following this ban, processors in China will be prohibited from making goods for overseas clients with imported iron ore, pig iron, steel scraps, billets or ingots provided by overseas clients. The ban of iron and steel processing trade is the third action taken by China within the past two months to reign in the steep increase in China’s steel exports, which have been on the rise since last year due to higher international steel prices vis-à-vis domestic prices (the fist action being China’s decision on April 1 to remove a 13-per cent tax rebate for steel billet and ingot exports; the second action being China’s decision on May 1 to cut the tax rebate for exports of some steel products to 11 per cent from 13 percent).

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