The Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs issued the Catalogue of Prohibited Commodities for Processing Trade in 2008 (Announcement No. 22 of 2008) on April 5, 2008. According to the 2008 “Import and Export Tariff of the People’s Republic of China†and the requirements of the State’s macro regulation and control, Revised and supplemented the catalogue of the bans on processing trade that have been issued. The announcement also applies to customs special supervision areas such as bonded zones and export processing zones, except for enterprises that have been established and engaged in the processing of related commodities before the announcement. In addition, the announcement stated that the products that have been announced by the state as being prohibited from importing and exporting are also applicable to the processing trade mode. From the date of the announcement, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Customs and the State Environmental Protection Administration No. 17 announcement in 2007 and the Catalogue attached to the Announcement of the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China in 2007 will be suspended. The transitional period and other related regulations shall be implemented as originally announced. .
The 2008 edition of the Catalogue of Prohibited Products in Processing Trade contained a total of 1,816 customs product codes, including 39 new prohibited goods catalogues and 598 second batch of processed trade prohibited goods catalogues in 2007.
There is no new aluminum-related processing trade prohibited products. The following table summarizes the aluminum-related processing trade prohibited commodity catalogues:
Product Code Product Name Prohibited Method Remarks
Mulliteite Export
Aluminium ores and concentrates (other than non-electrolytic aluminum and alumina production) Imports
Imports of Mine Ash and Residues Containing Aluminum
Alumina (except for non-electrolytic aluminum industry) Imports
Aluminium hydroxide Export
Aluminium fluoride export
Unwrought Unalloyed Aluminum Exports
Other unwrought unalloyed aluminum exports
Export of waste electrical wires such as recycled aluminum
Export of other aluminum scraps
Fine spherical aluminum powder with particle <500μm
Other non-flake aluminum exports
Aluminum flake powder Export
Export of non-alloy aluminum bars and rods revised the second batch of processed trade prohibited commodities catalogue in 2007
Non-alloy aluminum profiles, profile exports
Aluminum hollow profile export
Solid cylindrical body aluminum alloy outlet
Bars, rods, other profile exports made of other aluminium alloys
Non-alloy aluminum wire outlet with largest cross-section size >7mm
Unalloyed aluminum wire outlet with maximum cross-section size ≤ 7mm
aluminum alloy wire outlet with largest cross-section size >7mm
Aluminium alloy wire outlet with a maximum cross-section size ≤ 7mm
The products under 7604-7605 are used for deep processing transfer