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The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
Get help to classify various items of iron and steel, primarily those classified under chapter 72.
Guidance and information for local authorities on licencing and suitability of dealers, chargeable fees, definition of terms and other issues around this 2013 act.
Details of the new offence of purchasing scrap metal for cash and how the new offence will be implemented from 3 December 2012.
Get help to classify ceramic articles for import and export.
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Today’s action brings the world’s two largest metal exchanges into the scope of existing bans.
Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
You must get a scrap metal dealer licence from the council if you buy, sell or store scrap metal
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
The Water and Abandoned Metal Mines programme aims to tackle the water pollution caused by historical metal mining.
Trade remedies protect domestic industries from unfair practices around imports. The UK’s own independent trade policy includes a trade remedies system.
We need to ensure the safe, secure and cost-effective lifecycle management of nuclear materials and spent fuels.
Wreck and salvage laws, the role of the Receiver of the Wreck, wreck owners and salvors and how to report wreck material.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
VAT treatment of transactions in commodities, commodity derivatives and on terminal markets.
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