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The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), Brussels, reports that the People’s Republic of China has issued its sixth batch of scrap import quotas for 2020.
April 23, China’s Solid Waste & Chemicals Management Centre of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) published the most recent batch of scrap import quotas for 2020. (The list is in Chinese but can be translated by web browser).
According to the Solid Waste & Chemicals Management Centre, this sixth batch allows 2,150 metric tons of copper scrap, 1,030 metric tons of aluminum scrap, 1,510 metric tons of steel scrap and 124,080 metric tons of paper scrap to enter China.
The new quotas bring the total scrap imports permitted to enter China to date to 529,810 metric tons for copper, 476,579 metric tons for aluminum, 10,330 metric tons for ferrous and about 4.51 million metric tons for recovered fiber.
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