Chinese rare earth export restrictions and reasonable WTO Mo deposit sour grapes heart

Rare aside strategic resource property is not to say , of rare earth production to bring environmental pollution is a recognized fact . Therefore, aware of this problem , the Chinese began to restrict exports of rare earths is reasonable .

Although China is a big country of rare earth , rare earth resources is not the sole owner. The reason why the United States and Japan on this issue difficult for China , largely because the do not want to own domestic rare earth mining .

Environmental problems are not unique to China , but China is also on the deterioration of the environment around the world have been affected . Japan, South Korea had repeatedly condemned China 's haze caused harm to the country . Therefore, from this perspective, the WTO should not referee Chinese rare earth export restrictions violations.

According to British media reports, sources said , the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that China 's rare earth export restrictions incompatible with the rules of the organization , which is Beijing's use of export quotas and tariffs as a tool of industrial policy approach was successful the second time challenges. WTO panel ruling has not yet officially released , but declined to comment .

England on October 30 reported that the lawsuit is from Japan, the United States and Europe filed . China and Japan have been tensions between intensified in 2010 , something happened that year highlights the Chinese international trade in rare earth minerals dominance ; rare earths used in high-tech and military equipment in the field . Also applies to the case of tungsten and molybdenum.

The ruling came after the news on the 29th , the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, an influential policy analyst , said Mei Xinyu , China is likely to appeal. "In my opinion , China is fully entitled to limit strategic resource or cause serious pollution of the earth so that energy -intensive exports. "

Reported that " rare earths " are 17 kinds of metal collectively. China is by far the world's biggest producer of rare earth , despite the high price of three years ago to promote Australia, the U.S. and the recent development of rare earth mine in Greenland started .

Reported that by 2010 , China has gradually reduced for several consecutive years rare earth export quotas to try to encourage the processing of these metals in the country completed . Second half of 2010 rare earth export quota plummeted comes as a Chinese fishing boat in disputed waters collided with Japanese patrol boats , resulting in a shortage of rare earth supply , pushing up prices sharply . China accused of an embargo on Japan .

China in the 1990s, joining the WTO negotiations , the focus of the negotiations is to remove barriers to imported products for China to allow foreign products to compete in the Chinese market . Since then, China has to raise or lower export taxes , and a variety of products export quota system , as an incentive or discourage domestic production capacity expansion tool. These measures mean that the price of certain products in China is far below the international market.

In 2011, the United States, Europe and Mexico in favor of WTO on China , that cases against China for a variety of industrial raw materials export quotas imposed , the case as a challenge to China's rare earth export policy set a precedent.

China insists that the export quota of rare earth mining and processing for the suppression caused environmental damage is necessary. However, in limiting exports, while China has encouraged domestic rare earth processing industry expansion, which led to the WTO rejected China 's claims.

At the same time , China and Inner Mongolia, Jiangxi has two rare earth ore reserves of control into the hands of a few state-owned enterprises to reduce unregulated miners caused environmental damage.


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