ISRI has dialog with CCICNA on expenses issue

The Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) says it has met with the CCIC North America (CCICNA) Inc. Chinese shipment inspection provider regarding questionable expense requests and other issues that have arisen this year.

In a July 20 alert to its members, ISRI announced its President Robin Wiener and current Chair Brian Shine met with CCICNA representative at its headquarters in Los Angeles and “obtained clarification on a number of issues of importance to members.”

According to ISRI, “CCICNA clarified that it is now [its] policy to split the expenses incurred during a single trip by an inspector among all the facilities visited.” Previously, some ISRI member companies had discovered they each had been billed full travel expense amounts when inspectors conducted business with two or more recycling firms on the same trip.

“As a result of questions raised by ISRI, CCICNA has now printed their policy of sharing costs on their quotation sheets,” states the ISRI alert.

The ISRI delegation also raised the shortage of CCIC inspectors now on the job in North America. “With the elimination of China’s acceptance of self-inspection by previously approved recyclers, CCICNA has been trying to hire additional inspectors to address the expected increase in demand for pre-inspection services,” according to ISRI.

ISRI also sought and received clarification from CCICNA that it would provide “continued concurrence with China’s General Administration of Customs to accept RIOS (or ISO) as a prerequisite for export licenses.” RIOS is a certification program designed and introduced by ISRI.