A few days ago, Zhuhai Gaolan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau reported that the bureau had seized 27,000 tons of declared goods, ball-and-crushed ore, as imported solid waste, which has now been transferred to Customs for processing.
It is reported that when inspection and quarantine personnel carried out inspections, they found that the cargo was brown, honeycomb irregular, and did not match the normal iron ore products. Some of the goods also contained heat, smoke, and entrained some wood. Waste plastics, waste rubber, scrap metal, waste electronic components, stones, coal and lime blocks and other debris.
After being identified by the state-specified laboratory for the identification of solid waste attributes, the batch of goods is prohibited from importing solid waste. Not only does it have no recycling value, once it is imported, it will pose a great threat to China's environmental and ecological security and people's lives and health. The "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Solid Waste Pollution" and the "Administrative Measures on the Importation of Solid Wastes" stipulate that the goods will be handed over to Customs for return processing.
In recent years, as China’s economic growth rate has picked up, domestic demand for imported iron ore has stabilized, and some unscrupulous traders have sought to profiteously sell offcuts from foreign steel mills, slag and iron ore scraps, and sell them to China. At the same time, China has formally implemented the “Implementation Plan for the Prohibition of Importation of Foreign Garbage into China to Promote the Management of Imports of Solid Waste”. It is difficult for solid wastes with unqualified environmental protection to enter the country, and illegal traders have to reduce the cost of solid waste disposal such as iron ore smelting slag, in normal trade goods. Often entrained with solid waste.