Usage is not high is a difficult, rare earth quotas shall "severity" are different

Commerce complements the 2014 first batch of antimony , silver, rare earths , tin and other non-ferrous metals export quotas. Among them, the silver export quotas for Jiangxi Copper Company Limited and other four companies a total of 305 tons supplement ; rare then "fill " to the Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare Earth ( Group ) Hi-Tech Co. , light rare earth 378 tons , heavy RE 12 tons , totaling 390 tons , compared with 553 tons of rare earth quotas last year , reducing the refrain.

In recent years , rare earth quota utilization problem is widespread concern. America, Europe and the World Trade Organization (WTO) v. Chinese rare earth quotas will also be the case in March finalized . Accordingly, discuss quotas on rare earths are also increasingly intense.

Usage is not high is a difficult

Ministry of Commerce to add non-ferrous quota mainly for silver and rare earths. Data show that in 2014 export quota of 5,387 tons of silver , the total amount of the previous year. However, in 2013 a total of 5,387 tons of silver export quotas , the use rate of only 24.27% .

In this regard, an analyst Zhou Jiao pointed out that the figures show that the quota allocation problem. Meanwhile, the 2013 silver price all the way down so that the majority of enterprises to reduce the total export of silver , but also lead to low utilization .

2013 , China's rare earth export quotas ores, metals and compounds for 31,001 tons , customs data show exports of 22,493 tons , the quota utilization rate of 72.5% . This figure in 2011 was 52.01% , 2012 was 48.75% .

Many seemingly rare earth quota utilization growth , in fact , low prices accounted for a large " water ." Customs statistics show that in the case of export volume growth from January to November 2013 China 's total exports of rare earth has dropped by 37.6 percent year on year , to $ 510 million . Seen, this might not be true in the utilization of growth . But while some analysts believe that in the short term , the global market 's dependence on Chinese rare earths will not be reduced.

" Overseas markets seeking to establish independent from China 's rare earth industry chain is not successful because no rare foreign production chain so complete and rich Chinese . " industry analyst Li Qing said. Two rare earth production to foreign companies and the Australian company Lynas American molybdenum , for example, "Because of deep environmental issues , their separation plant in Malaysia by the protests of environmentalists , making the costs are high, resulting in a loss. To reduce their losses by purchasing cheaper Chinese rare earths. "

In addition , smuggling squeeze the legitimate exports. " crackdown began last year to some extent on the curb smuggling, but also improve the accuracy of official statistics . " Li Qing said .

Quotas must be due to " severity " and points

In fact, in 2012 the United States , the European Union formally before the WTO on China 's rare earth export quota system filed a lawsuit in 2009 and 2010 , the European Union , the United States had requested China to cancel rare earth export quota system. Mid- ever use of rare earth export quotas " to the quota of " feasible?

Some analysts believe that rare earth export quota management is increasingly meaningless. When the rare earth prices, overseas customers will be imported by other means. Last year at Ganzhou Rare Earth Summit organized by the deputy secretary of China Rare Earth Society陈占恒has said that now is oversupply , if the quotas , there will be a big change for the purposes of supply and demand , " tariffs have come down , smuggling does not make sense . "

However, insiders said that although the pattern of rare earth supply diversification trend more obvious , but if the abolition of quotas and tariffs , China rare earth prices will plummet , could squeeze in other countries of rare earth production line again.

In fact, the domestic rare earth smelting separation has serious excess capacity . Gong Bin, chairman and general manager of Ganzhou Rare Earth Group Qiandong said that the current separation of ionic rare earth smelting capacity in the South can have more than 100,000 tons , as the southern province of rare earths in 2013 the first batch of production index reached 3950 tons of Jiangxi Province .

The industry generally believe that in the long run , the export quotas is the general direction , the key is to straighten out the order of the domestic rare earth industry . But for now, the quota system is still constrained enterprises, reduce the " underworld " of an effective mechanism . Vice President of China CCCMC Liu Yi Nan said quota is a management system , big or small .

For China, the heavy rare and scarce raw materials needed for high-tech products , so as a strategic resource and under control , light rare earth has remained in surplus state.

Li Qing bluntly , there is not the severity of rare earths should be treated , in short , let the light rare earths such as lanthanum , cerium , good control of heavy rare earths . In fact, in light rare earth prices are also high and low points . "Due to the large demand for rare earths in the production process so praseodymium neodymium simultaneously produce a large number of lanthanum , cerium , lanthanum , cerium and thus the existence of the problem of excess . For this type of light rare earth , should be fully liberalized market , making better use . " Source: China Nonferrous Metals News


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