The General Department of Vietnam Customs (CGD) will study and submit to the Ministry of Finance a proposal to the Government to restrict imports of scrap materials and move towards a ban on scrap imports to Vietnam. A report from the General Department of Vietnam Customs said there were over 5,000 scrap containers help up at ports in Hai Phong and HCM City. – Photo thoibaokinhdoanh.vn According to Au Anh Tuan, acting director of the Customs Supervision and Management Department, after China banned the import of 24 types of scrap, the amount imported to Vietnam in 2017 and the first five months of 2018 has increased. Additionally, some enterprises had forged scrap import permits. Domestic companies have imported scrap from many different countries for production demand. Remarkably, in the first five months of this year, the volume of imported plastic scrap surged nearly 200 per cent over the entire 2017, Tuan told Thoi bao kinh doanh (Business Times). A report from the General Department of Vietnam Customs said there were 3,579 scrap containers held up at Cat Lai Port in HCM City and 1,485 containers at Hai Phong Port. Tuấn said that many shipments of imported scrap did not meet environmental criteria. The customs department refused many shipments and a number of enterprises had not carried out customs procedures when they were detected by customs officers, resulting in the large amount of scrap at seaports around the country, he said. At a press conference on Monday, responding to questions about… [Read full story]
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