Problems Faced by China's Chemical Enterprises in Response to REACH      

Two objective causes prevent China's chemical enterprises from getting adequate import and export alert reports.
   Most of China's exported chemical products are not required to be inspected and quarantined in the course of their production and sales. Thus, China's chemical enterprises know little about import and export alert reports issued either by China's inspection and quarantine agencies or by foreign ones.
   Also, in China, several different government agencies administer the export of chemicals, so the regulations for the export of chemicals are not uniform. In China, the main chemicals regulation is "Hazardous Chemicals Control Ordinance" issued by the State Council. The export of hazardous chemicals must comply with "Commodity Inspection Law" and a number of international regulations. In China, there are also a few other regulations for the export of chemicals, but they do not support each other. In some developed countries, there are more than 10 chemical safety management regulations for each. In this aspect, China still lags behind these countries.
   A common phenomenon in China is that enterprises have learned to rely on the support of the government and their supervising agencies. So far, when dealing with the REACH regulation, most chemical enterprises choose to report their concerns to Chinese inspection and quarantine agencies, hoping that these agencies can negotiate with related foreign authorities.
  Therefore, the official implementation of the REACH regulation will bring crises to China's export of chemicals to the EU.