According to a recent note by the Bureau of International Recycling, changes have been made in regards to the import of scrap recyclables into India. The changes came after considerable efforts by BIR and its Indian members and in particular the BIR Ambassador to India in promoting necessary changes regarding the controls of imports into India. The changes were recognized Sept. 23. The BIR notes that a notice by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forest makes improvements that will allow traders to provide their services to their clients, the "actual users", having registered with the State Pollution Control Board. Also the new Indian rules allow both inspection agencies "certified by the exporting country" and inspection and certification agencies "approved by the Director General of Foreign Trade" to provide exporters with pre-shipment inspection certificates where required. It is still the case that not every exporting country will have the services of an inspection agency, and certain inspection agencies are likely to continue to refuse to provide certificates for India (due to the required certificate wording and its liability). Still for exporting countries that do not have an inspection agency "certified by the exporting country" they can use an agency "approved by the Director General of Foreign Trade". Links to key Indian rules are the following: The new Rule S.O.2447(E), at http://www.envfor.nic.in/legis/hsm/SO2447.pdf amends the Rule S.O.1799(E), at http://www.envfor.nic.in/legis/hsm/SO1799E.pdf, which amends the main Rules on Hazardous Wastes at http://envfor.nic.in/legis/hsm/HAZMAT_2265_eng.pdf. The BIR also notes that the list of "the inspection and certification agency approved by the Director General of Foreign Trade" [ http://164.100.9.245/exim/2000/apndxftp0809/appnd-5.pdf The amendments by DGFT include, but may not be limited to Public Notices as: http://164.100.9.245/exim/2000/cir/cir05/cir3205.htm http://164.100.9.245/exim/2000/pn/pn05/pn0605.htm http://164.100.9.245/exim/2000/pn/pn05/pn1105.htm http://164.100.9.245/exim/2000/pn/pn05/pn2605.htm http://164.100.9.245/exim/2000/pn/pn05/pn3305.htm http://dgftcom.nic.in/exim/2000/pn/pn05/pn3805.htm http://dgftcom.nic.in/exim/2000/pn/pn05/pn3905.htm http://dgftcom.nic.in/exim/2000/pn/pn05/pn5105.htm http://164.100.9.245/exim/2000/pn/pn07/pn4407.htm http://164.100.9.245/exim/2000/pn/pn08/pn8908.htm
Shipments to India Improve
BIR works aggressively to improve the import of scrap materials to India.