The rare earth case against China launched by the WTO will be decided by the end of the year. Market players believe China will have little chance to win the case, and predict China's management system to the rare earth industry will change, with new rare earth regulations expected to be released.

According to market analyst Chen Jiazuo, China's rare earth industry should put emphasis on local utilization of rare earth and rare earth functional material. He said, rare earth market players generally lack confidence for China to win the WTO rare earth case, and that will cause China to change its management system. Existing management measures including quotas, taxes and qualifications will likely be eliminated, and new regulations will be released.
　　
China will likely accelerate construction of rare earth groups, so that China's rare earth business can run in a way of marketization.


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It is a good period for the depressing rare earth industry to conduct industrial upgrading officially. Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have jointly issued the "Special Funds Management for Rare Earth Industry Upgrade", which will support "R&D of Technology and Standards", "R&D of Technical Application and Industrialization", "Development of Technical Platform". The measures have incorporated a number of subsidy financing and capital injection to support the rare earth technology development and industrialization.

The special funds will be utilized for the following five perspectives: Rare Earth Resource Extraction Supervision; Rare Earth Mining, Smelting Environmental Technological Innovation; R&D of Rare Earth Key Technologies and Standards; Technology Development and Industrialization of High-end Applications of Rare Earth; Construction of Public Technical Services Platform.


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In February 2013, China's rare earth exports 1106 tons, greatly increased 289.12% on last year, while in the same time, the rare earth prices have seen a sharp fell comparably. Some experts believe that the significant increase in the exports of rare earth is owing to the low base of last year same period. It is showed from the statistics that rare earth prices in February amounts to $22,650/ton, down 11.32% with last month of $25,540/ton .

Generally speaking, the rare earth companies have filled in its inventory in advance, in order to better prepare its peak selling season in March. It has been informed that, Baotou Steel Rare Earth, which has discontinued its production for four consecutive months, has announced its resume of production, while at the same time, the company has began to use the materials form domestic companies in North China.

GF Securities analyst Guoxian Ju said, With the peak production season in March and April, the rare earth concentrate prices has been stable for almost 2 months. However, the slightly decrease in the price of midstream smelting products has showed the demand is still under depression.


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According to the website of the Environmental Protection Office, 80 rare earth producers in China meet environmental protection requirements, and passed inspections by the Environmental Protection Office. 5 of them are located in Baotou.

These five enterprises include Baotou Xinyuan Rare Earth Hi-Tech and New Material Company, Baotou Luodiya Rare Earth Company, Baotou Tianjiao Seimi Polishing Powder Company, Baotou Rewin Rare Earth Metal Materials Company and Baotou Santoku Battery Company.

After the inspections, environmental protection equipment standard and management ability of enterprises will improve.


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