Imported waste paper becomes the main raw material for domestic paper mills

At the end of the Iraq war, domestic paper manufacturers gave a slight relief as the price of the main raw material, waste paper, finally began to fall. Cheng Yu, deputy general manager of Foreign Economic Relations Department of Fujian Nanping Paper Company, told reporters that at the beginning of the war, the price of No. 6 waste paper (old newspapers, newsprint paper's main raw materials) imported from the United States reached the highest point in recent years, at 150 per ton. Between $160 and $100, it's OK.

"We have to import from other countries, the cost is greatly increased." Cheng Hao said. Nan Paper Co., Ltd. is a large-scale paper manufacturing company. The waste paper in raw materials accounts for more than 70%, mainly imported from the United States.

Zhao Wei of the China Paper Association told the reporter, “Don't underestimate the import of waste paper. It has become the blood of the domestic paper industry.” After the US’s scrapped newspapers are collected, packed, and packed, they are shipped to China and are cut into pieces and washed away. The ink, made into pulp and dried, was finally made into newsprint and once again became a newspaper.

According to China's current tariffs, foreign paper and paper products must be levied a tariff of 10% to 25%, while paper pulp, waste paper imports are zero tariffs, which provides favorable conditions for foreign companies to set up factories in China to increase capital.

China is a large country for paper consumption. Taking Shanghai as an example, the annual consumption is about 4 million tons, and the waste paper produced is also one or two million tons. However, the recovery and utilization of waste paper is relatively weak. In 2001, although domestic waste paper recycling reached 9.95 million tons, the recycling rate was only 27%, which was much lower than the world average of 43.7%. According to an industry analyst, compared with developed countries, there are few waste paper recycling outlets in China, the recycling price is too low, and the quality of paper is poor. The economic benefits that waste paper can produce are not very obvious, making the domestic waste paper imports grow rapidly.

According to the American Society of Waste Recycling Industry, the United States exported 2.3 million tons of scrap steel to China last year, equivalent to the total weight of one million Ford vehicles; it exported approximately 450,000 tons of waste plastics to China, which weighs 14.5 billion. Empty plastic soda bottle.

"This is the garbage trade. It is occupying an increasingly important position," said an industry source.

Gu Minda, director of the China National Light Industry Group's Papermaking Secondary Fiber Utilization Collaboration Center, reminded that the foreign trade has fluctua- tively fluctuating, the supply laws are not stable, and the use risk issue has become increasingly apparent. “Relevant departments and enterprises in our country should learn from the experience of recycling waste materials abroad, turn waste into treasure, and make money.”

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