Importing & Exporting PET Soda Bottles to China

Written By admin on Saturday 6 August 2011 | 01:19

By Sandeep Singh


Since the beginning of the plastic scrap trading industry, PET has been a hot selling commodity. This is because the common plastic soda/water bottle (made with PET plastic) can be processed into recycled polyester staple fiber (PSF), which can then be manufactured into clothing.

The first thing to know about exporting and importing PET bottles to China is, like other plastic scrap, it must pass CCIC pre-inspection. As soda/water bottles generally have remaining liquids such as leftover juices, soda, for example. Soiled plastic bottles are often stinky and attract many insects like ants and flies, which is a "no-no" in the inspector's eyes. To correctly export PET bottles to China, they are shredded (release liquids) and put through a fast water bath. To cut back the humidity within the PET flakes, the semi-cleaned flakes are left out in the sunshine for drying and then was compacted and baled for shipment.

If the PET bottles aren't properly cleaned, that is, baled full, they're typically sent to other countries for processing such as Hong Kong, Vietnam, Philippines, for example.

On the China side of things, a proper environmental license is required for importing PET plastic bottles. In fact , the common import license requires the PET to be shredded or flaked. More frequently than not, purchasers of PET flakes are end-users that own the environmental certificate. This permits the purchaser to not only lower the expenses for importing; it gives the purchaser certain tax discounts. I've heard news that the Chinese administration plans to release environmental import licenses for entire plastic bottles nevertheless , it still has to come out.

PET flakes are usually specified by type and colour. The costliest is clean, clear, dried PET flakes without labels or bottle tops. At the time of this tract, this commodity sells for about $1100 Greenbacks per metric ton CNF China. The less fascinating is clear PET flakes with labels and bottle tops which are made with PP or PE plastic. Once these arrive in China, they must go through additional processing before usage. The price for this is around $950 Bucks per metric ton CNF China. The above costs are primarily based on extraordinarily low, nearly no humidity and PVC content (or other plastics).

This should have given you basic information on plastic scrap trading that should also help you to understand it's pricing and what you can do to help make sure you get the very best price for your scrap.




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