Trade & Tariffs

The U.S. continues to export less and less scrap plastic overseas, the latest trade figures show.

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released trade data for the fourth quarter of 2021, allowing Resource Recycling to calculate full-year...

More than two dozen researchers and e-scrap experts from nine countries are calling for a global extended producer responsibility system...

A longtime exports policy observer says an e-scrap exports prohibition currently under consideration in Congress protects OEM profits by squeezing...

The co-founder of the Coalition for American Electronics Recycling argues that an e-scrap export prohibition will safeguard the U.S., advance...

Two U.S. Senators have reintroduced the Secure E-waste Export and Recycling Act as a tactic to push inclusion of e-scrap...

Scrap fiber exports to China collapsed in 2021, but the rest of the world more than made up the difference....

A newly adopted schedule of tariff codes provides more detailed categories for e-scrap shipments moving over international borders. The changes...

U.S. scrap plastic exports fell by 12% in 2021, even though some countries, such as India and Mexico, brought in...

CMA CGM Group, the third-largest ocean shipping company in the world, announced it will no longer carry post-use plastics on...