According to statistics, in the first half of 2018, China's imports of polyethylene were about 7.188 million tons, an increase of 27.64% compared with the first half of last year. At the beginning of the year, the plastics prohibition and environmental protection tax were implemented one after another. Enterprises that did not meet environmental protection requirements were rectified and discontinued. The output dropped sharply. In addition, the centralized maintenance of domestic petrochemical plants in May led to a significant increase in the import of polyethylene in the first half of the year.
In terms of proportion, the import low pressure accounted for 48.63%, the import linear ratio accounted for 29.35%, and the high pressure import volume accounted for the smallest proportion. Its import volume accounted for 21.10% of the total PE import volume.
