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Vietnam Bans Imports of Certain Scrap

Vietnam is banning imports of 13 types of “scrap” because of environmental pollution, according to an Aug. 5 report from Vietnam Customs’ mouthpiece CustomsNews. The banned scraps include: gypsum, silk, “chemical elements for use in electronics,” vonfram, molypden, magie, titan,…

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zircon, antimon, crom, “reboilded ingot waste,” plastic waste and scrap plastics from polymers styrene, the report said.