Shandong port for the first time seized "expired and discarded paint" was returned to the country

China Coatings Network
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recently, under the supervision of the Qingdao Customs Under the Yantai Customs site supervision, 72 tons of expired and abandoned
coatings
in Yantai port terminal was returned to the country. The batch of coatings is the first time in recent years in Shandong port seized expired and waste paint countries prohibited the import of solid waste.
The batch of solid waste when entering the country declared products named "powder paint sheets", by Yantai customs site inspection and sampling sent to the state authorities for testing, was identified as expired and waste paint, belonging to China's prohibited import of solid waste, Yantai Customs in accordance with the law to carry it back.
In order to crack down on "foreign garbage" smuggling and protect China's ecological environment security, Yantai Customs strengthens the risk analysis of freight channels, strengthens the control of non-law-abiding enterprises and commodities with higher regulatory risks, gives full play to the deterrent effect of inspection; Information sharing, improve the comprehensive effectiveness of supervision, form a private joint effort within the customs, increase policy publicity and interpretation efforts, take the form of external announcements, visits and other forms, so that enterprises to learn more about the state ban on imports, restrictions on imports, automatic licensing of imports of solid waste catalogue and related management regulations, guide enterprises to operate in good faith in accordance with the law, and effectively "foreign garbage" outside the country.
Statistics, since 2013, Yantai Customs has detected 11 cases of illegal smuggling of solid waste, involving a total of 568,000 tons, a total of 390 tons of solid waste disposed of harmlessly by the environmental protection department, and 90.86 tons of solid waste returned from the country.