It is reported that in accordance with relevant state laws and regulations, industry policies and standards, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China has issued “Rare Earth Industry Norm Conditions (2016 version)” and “Rare Earth Industry Norm Conditions Bulletin Management Approach” in order to protect China's rare earth resources and the ecological environment  and regulate tungsten market (tungsten heater) management promoting adjustment of industrial structure and transformation of economic and promoting the healthy and stable development of tungsten market (tungsten heater).

There are a series of new regulations for the supervision and management in Chapter III.

Article IX indicates that rare earth enterprises who want to apply standardized conditions announcements should truthfully fill in any application materials. List of rare earth enterprises which enter the announcement should strictly follow the requirements of production and business activities of "standard".
Announcement enterprises should establish production and management accounting, accept supervision and inspection of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China, local people's governments at all levels and the rare earth industry department.
Article X: Provincical (autonomous regions and municipalities) People's Government and the rare earth industry department would work with relevant departments to supervise and test for the "standard conditions" of announcement enterprises, report the result of the supervision and inspection to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China timely.
Article XI: welcome and encourage social supervision. Any unit or individual can make a complaint or report to the competent department of the rare earth industry if found the related rare earth enterprises do not meet the relevant requirements of "standard conditions".

The new "standard conditions" have carried out detailed provisions for various aspects of the establishment and layout, production scale, resource utilization and other rare earth projects.

In late June, Chinese announced the "National Catalogue of Hazardous Wastes" 2016 edition. The catalogue noted the tungsten slag which produced for ammonium paratungstate alkaline decomposition process and molybdenum slag which produced form molybdenum removal process and waste water are included in the non-ferrous metal smelting waste, belong to toxic smelting waste. But other tungsten products smelting slag has not yet been included in the catalogue.

In June 29, 2016, Ganzhou Tungsten Industry Association held a meeting with APT smelting enterprises directors. This meeting fully analyzed the impact of this environmental policy on APT smelting enterprises and discussed the appropriate response options. This environmental policy will begin on August 1 and for APT smelting enterprises still have one month grace period. The relevant manufacturers can find a way to solve the difficulties and problems. It is said environmental policy will not great influence on the smelting factory, mainly because tungsten market is now at a low season, having low operating rates, so the prices continued to slight decline and tungsten raw material and tungsten finished manufacturers enthusiasm is not high.

Brexit resulting pound continues to fall, the euro against the dollar also fell more than three percent, while the swiss franc and the Japanese yen has been skyrocketing. Brexit direct affects the global currency market. In order to stabilize the economy, many countries have begun to currency intervention. Europe As a cross-border export electricity supplier important market, is now in the economy shocks and the pound and the euro will likely continued to depreciate, which to some extent, in favor of tungsten market import, such as imports of tungsten related equipment. But in this economic situation will reduce the profits of business, which is not conducive to exports. The official pointed out, the current China logistics companies which employ cross-border e-commence in EU usually through the UK into the EU, therefore the British leaved form Europe have a certain impact on China-EU cross-border logistics service providers. Brexit will make the global economy in long grace period, so countries should make corresponding measures to stabilize their economies.