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China: 2009 Adjustment to policy on industrial waste imports

Announcement

03 Jul 2009

July 3rd, 2009 - Several Chinese ministries announced changes to the government's policy to industrial waste imports in a joint announcement.

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Number of interventions

4

2 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

2 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

01 Aug 2009

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Last action: 03 Jul 2009
Import quota In force
As well as these additions, two items were removed from the 'restricted' import category.
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Last action: 03 Jul 2009
Import ban In force
In addition to the above, nine products were removed from the banned catalogue.
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Implementation date

01 Aug 2009

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Last action: 03 Jul 2009
Import quota In force
As well as banned items, the policy also include a catalogue of products able to be imported on a 'restricted' basis. In 2009, 18 items were added to this category.
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Last action: 03 Jul 2009
Import ban In force
On the 3rd of July, 2009, several PRC government bodies jointly announced changes to the 2008 policy on the imports of industrial waste. Amongst the changes were 15 products added to the list of banne...
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