Recently, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued Announcement No. 54 of 2020 on Adjusting the Catalog of Prohibited Commodities for Processing Trade. The adjustment of the Catalog of Prohibited Commodities for Processing Trade will be implemented from December 1, 2020.
According to the announcement, the list of prohibited commodities for processing trade in the "Announcement No. 90 of 2014 of the Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs" is in line with the national industrial policy, products that are not high-energy-consumption, high-polluting, and products with high technical content are excluded. Excluding 199 ten-digit product codes, including soda ash, baking soda, urea, sodium nitrate, potassium sulfate, titanium dioxide and other chemicals.
Titanium dioxide by sulfuric acid method and titanium dioxide by chloride method are two products with different production processes. The product attributes are the same. 20% of their uses have irreplaceable functions, and 60% can be replaced each other. Experts believe that the production process of chloride method titanium dioxide is "Process for mass production of pigment-grade titanium dioxide."
For many years, “titanium dioxide” has been identified as “high energy consumption and high pollution”, although the national policy on the production of chlorinated titanium dioxide is included in the encouraged category of the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalog 2019" (mainly for economic Social development plays an important role in promoting technology, equipment, products, and industries that are conducive to meeting the needs of the people for a better life and promoting high-quality development; sulfuric acid titanium dioxide is included in the restricted category (mainly because the process technology is backward and does not meet the industry access conditions In accordance with relevant regulations, it is forbidden to build or expand or need to supervise the transformation of production capacity, process technology, equipment and products). However, there is no specific implementation plan for encouragement, and no better guidance measures for restrictions.
According to the "Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Catalog 2019", the chloride process titanium dioxide process belongs to the encouraged category. Even the sulfuric acid process titanium dioxide process should be "supervised and reformed production capacity, process technology, equipment and products" restricted category, not "eliminated category" ".
This time, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued the Announcement No. 54 of 2020 on Adjusting the Catalog of Prohibited Commodities for Processing Trade. The catalog of prohibited commodities for processing trade conforms to the national industrial policy and is not classified as energy-intensive and highly polluting products. The elimination of products with higher technical content includes titanium dioxide, which is a major benefit for the titanium dioxide industry in my country's industrial structure adjustment.
After more than half a century of development in my country’s titanium dioxide industry, my country’s titanium dioxide market became a net exporter in 2010, with an annual increase in export volume. In 2019, the national output reached 3.18 million tons and the export volume exceeded 1 million tons. The increase in export volume over the years reflects Recognized by the international market, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued Announcement No. 54 of 2020 on the adjustment of the catalog of prohibited commodities for processing trade at the right time, which created a certain policy encouragement for the export of titanium dioxide and opened up the first for export tax rebates. A checkpoint.
With the development of technology upgrade, equipment optimization, product quality and specialization of my country's titanium dioxide industry, encouraged by various national policies, my country's titanium dioxide industry will usher in a new era during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Source: Chemical Network
