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China: 2014 Adjustment to policy on industrial waste imports

Announcement

30 Dec 2014

In December 2014, the government of China announced an alteration to the catalogue of items affected by the country's policy on industrial waste imports.

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Number of interventions

4

2 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

2 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

01 Jan 2015

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Updated: 30 Dec 2014
Import quota In force

As well as the above additions to the 'restricted' items catalogue, eight products were also removed from this list.

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Updated: 30 Dec 2014
Import ban In force

In addition to the above, one product was removed from the list of banned imports.

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Implementation date

01 Jan 2015

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Updated: 30 Dec 2014
Import quota In force

The catalogue also includes a category for products which are allowed to be imported on a 'restricted' basis.

This iteration saw five items added to this list.

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Updated: 30 Dec 2014
Import ban In force

On 30 December 2014, the Chinese government issued Announcement No. 80/2014, which updated the PRC's policy in regard to imports of industrial waste.

Three products were added to the...

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