(1) The import or export of goods needs to be prohibited in order to safeguard national security, public interest or public morality;
(2) The import or export of goods needs to be prohibited in order to protect the health or safety of human beings, protect the life or health of animals or plants, and protect the environment;
(3) In order to implement measures relating to the import and export of gold or silver, it is necessary to prohibit the import or export;
(4) In the event of a shortage of domestic supply or for the purpose of effective protection of natural resources that may be exhausted, it is necessary to prohibit the export;
(5) In accordance with the provisions of the laws and administrative regulations, it is necessary to prohibit the import or export of other;
(6) According to (F) According to the provisions of international treaties and agreements concluded or participated in by China, other need to prohibit the import or export.
The State may take any measures necessary to maintain national security with respect to the import and export of goods related to fissionable or fusionable substances or substances derived from such substances, as well as the import and export of weapons, ammunition or other military materials.
In times of war or for the maintenance of international peace and security, the State may take any measures necessary in respect of the import and export of goods.
The competent department for foreign trade under the State Council, in conjunction with other relevant departments of the State Council, shall, in accordance with the provisions of Articles 16 and 17 of the Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China, formulate, adjust and publicize a catalog of goods prohibited from import and export.
The competent department for foreign trade under the State Council, or in conjunction with other relevant departments of the State Council, may, with the approval of the State Council, temporarily decide to prohibit the import or export of specific goods other than those listed in the catalog provided for in the preceding paragraph, within the scope of the provisions of Articles 16 and 17 of the Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China*** and of the People's Republic of China.
How many batches of catalogs of prohibited import and export goods*** have been issued so far, and what are their specific contents?
At present, five batches of the Catalog of Prohibited Import Goods and two batches of the Catalog of Prohibited Export Goods have been issued.
The five batches of "Catalog of Prohibited Imported Goods" are as follows:
1. The goods in the "Catalog of Prohibited Imported Goods" (the first batch) are tiger bones, rhinoceros horns, opium juice and extracts, carbon tetrachloride, trichlorotrifluoroethane (CFC-113) (used in cleaning agents), etc., which are listed in the Announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) No. 19 of 2001;
2. Catalog" (second batch) of goods for some of the old mechanical and electrical products prohibited from import, the catalog listed 67 old mechanical and electrical products prohibited from importing, including some of the old pressure vessels, medical equipment, electronic games, 87 chapters of the vehicle class, etc.; for details, see the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the General Administration of Customs, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Announcement No. 37 of 2001;
3. "Prohibition of Imports of Goods Catalog" (the third batch) of goods for the Prohibited imports of hazardous wastes, covering municipal garbage, medical waste, chemical waste and other prohibited wastes; see the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, General Administration of Customs, State Environmental Protection Administration Announcement No. 36 of 2001;
4. "Prohibition of Imports of Goods Catalog") (the fourth batch of) the goods for the unprocessed human hair, slag (or flotation slag) and similar industrial residues, waste tires and their cuttings, old clothes, Battery scrap and waste batteries, etc., see the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the General Administration of Customs, the State Environmental Protection Administration Announcement No. 25 of 2002 [Note: which sugar cane molasses, other molasses has been converted to the second batch of "Restrictions on imports of categories of wastes that can be used as raw materials directory"];
5. "Prohibition of Imports of Goods Catalog" (the fifth batch) of the goods for the prohibition of imports of waste electromechanical products (including their parts, dismantling parts, Broken parts, smashed parts, except as otherwise provided by the state), the catalog is in the original ban on the import of "electronic waste" [waste television sets and tubes, waste refrigerators (cabinets), waste air conditioners (cabinets), waste microwave ovens, waste computers, waste computer monitors and display tubes, waste photocopiers, waste video cameras (VCRs), waste rice cookers, waste corded telephones ] and other hazardous wastes into a clear, unified, easy to operate management directory based on the addition of waste fax machines and teletypewriters, waste mobile communications equipment, waste printed circuits, waste integrated circuits and microelectronic components, waste medical equipment and other prohibited imports of waste mechanical and electrical products, see the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the General Administration of Customs, SEPA Announcement No. 25 of 2002 for more details.
Aluminum oxide is also banned from import and export