Tajik authorities have put ban on exporting scrap metals as well ferrous and non-ferrous metal waste.

As usual, government’s resolution to ban export of scrap metals was issued retroactively. 

The ban on exporting scrap metals took effect on March 1, while the resolution itself was issued on March 31.  

The regulation, in particular, notes that such measures have been taken for the purpose of “efficiently using scrap metals and ferrous and non-ferrous metal waste, and expanding industrial processing of them inside the country.” 

The ministries of industry, economic development, finance and transport are ordered to provide control over the implementation of this resolution

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tajik enterprises have stopped processing scrap metals and metal waste and begun exporting them in large volumes to other countries, mostly to China.

In the early 2000s, Chinese entrepreneurs began developing scrap market in Tajikistan itself.  They set up small enterprises on smelting scrap metals.  These enterprises were mostly producing low-quality fittings.  

In 2018, Tajik authorities began shutting down such enterprises.  With the establishment of modern metallurgical plants in Dushanbe and Hisor, small private enterprises on processing metal waste were not needed.  

Metal scrap storage in Tajikistan is regulated by the law “On Storage of Scrap Metals and Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metal Waste.”