Vietnam's Updated List of Restricted Waste and Scrap Imports Bans 13 Materials

Vietnam recently updated its import restrictions on certain waste materials, according to a Jan. 7 report from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. The country outright banned 13 varieties of waste materials and scrap, and listed 23 other categories of waste that “remain permissible,” HKTDC said. Banned for import are gypsum, certain chemical elements used electronics, certain scraps sourced from plastics, silk waste, yarn waste and remelted scrap ingots of iron and steel. Also blacklisted are: tungsten, molybdenum, magnesium, titanium, zircon, antimony and chromium fragments. Waste or scrap products that are still allowed include cast iron, steel, tinned iron, certain types of plastics -- such as those derived from polyvinyl chloride -- and some forms of glass.