
The leading association that creates awareness and impotence of recycling, metal recycling trade among members, All India Non-Ferrous Metal Exim Association (ANMA), which comprises around 500 aluminium scrap recyclers in Gujarat, has urged the Union government to abstain from enforcing BIS (Bureau of India Standards) quality standards on imported aluminium scrap.

On 24th August 2021, Jayant Jain, the honorary secretary of ANMA during the event of the Annual General Meeting in Ahmedabad, said: “The import duty on aluminium scrap in our neighbouring countries is nil. Our government has imposed a 2.5 per cent import duty on the same. We fear that the government under the influence of larger players in aluminium production might raise this import duty. Why should there be a duty on scrap in the first place? Such a duty is understandable for finished goods.”

He further added: “Now the larger players are also trying to influence the government to bring in BIS standards for aluminium scrap. Scrap is not an item on which quality standards can be imposed. We are ready if similar standards are applied to the products we make from recycled aluminium. Such steps will eliminate small scrap importers and will benefit larger aluminium producers in the country.”
Appealing for equal opportunity as regards to bigger companies such as Hindalco and Vedanta, Jain said: “ANMA members import aluminium scrap, recycle it and convert it as products for the automobile industry.”
“We are secondary producers of aluminium and we have almost zero waste during recycling. We do not pollute as the large producers who use bauxite and generate red mud, which is hard to dispose of and can easily pollute soil and water. Our energy needs are also far less than the larger players,” he continued.
Jain further said; “We also export recycled products to China, Japan, Taiwan and Indonesia,”
In India, Gujarat registers import 35,000 to 40,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap every month. The state has 500 aluminium recycling facilities that hold 30% of the total recycled aluminium produced in the country.
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