Foreign garbage or raw materials? Imported leather and fur trimmings properties to determine the Customs will have a standard to follow

Recently, the General Administration of Customs of China officially issued the "imported solid waste identification methods Textile Raw Materials and Products Part 4: Leather Fur" (SN/T 5431.4-2022) (hereinafter referred to as "imported solid waste identification methods"), and on October 1, 2022 officially implemented. The introduction of the identification method, in promoting the national crackdown on foreign waste imports at the same time, but also effectively guide the import of available leather fur trimmings in the classification, packaging and other aspects of standardized management, to ensure the reasonable rights and interests of enterprises, promote the leather industry related enterprises of the key Kang orderly development.

In recent years, the state has been increasing the fight against foreign garbage import supervision, solid waste imports have been effectively curbed. And part of the imported leather fur trimmings, such as fur scraps, a larger area of the edge of the abdominal bits of leather, etc., although still has a high processing and utilization value, but because of its characteristics of being cut, and some of the goods are divided into chaotic, carrying miscellaneous and other phenomena, easy to be judged as solid waste and prohibited imports. In order to better safeguard national interests and protect the reasonable rights and interests of industry enterprises, the General Administration of Customs scientific management, the development and release of "imported solid waste identification methods", as the standard to determine whether the leather and fur trimmings imported by enterprises belong to solid waste. Imported solid waste identification methods" applies to all types of leather and fur solid waste properties identification, sampling, inspection and identification of the report and other requirements, with common samples of imported leather and fur illustrations and morphological characteristics, solid waste identification of the main product standards involved. The standard stipulates that the belly raw hide area of not less than 5000 cm2, semi-finished leather area of not less than 2000 cm2, finished leather area of not less than 800 cm2, finished fur body parts of the narrowest length ≥ 2 cm leather fur trimmings in meeting the relevant provisions of the standard conditions are not as solid waste management.

China leather association remind the relevant enterprises, seriously understand the standard content, and in the import of such products, be sure to ask the supplier to remove the product with other debris, belly leather shape characteristics are obvious, not mixed with the skin surface has a large area of broken belly leather; for finished leather trimmings should be classified independent packaging, that is, the container should be color, shape, specifications, etc. are similar to the trimmings, not different specifications, color, shape of the For fur trimmings should be packaged independently according to the same animal species, the same part, the principle of similar color, to ensure the smooth completion of import procedures.