With soaring levels of its own domestic rubbish, the country has already restricted deliveries and cracked down on waste smuggling
ROARING TRADE: Trucks are loaded with shipping containers at a port in Qingdao, Shandong province on Wednesday. China’s exports and imports grew more than expected last month. Picture: REUTERS
Beijing began restricting deliveries in 2018, while customs authorities have launched a series of crackdowns on waste smuggling, leading to hundreds of arrests. In December, Beijing also vowed to ban imports of more varieties of scrap steel, copper and aluminium starting from July, and the veto will be extended to products such as scrap stainless steel and titanium at the end of this year.
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