Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and U.S. President Barack Obama at the APEC summit held in Yokohama during the informal meeting held talks, both sides agreed to carry out, including rare earths, including the use of clean energy technology cooperation.

Europe and other countries on bauxite and other 9 kinds of raw materials to obtain WTO ruling proceedings, they exhibit the same measures to be taken against the intent of rare earth, but from the United States and Japan filed a lawsuit to make the final WTO ruling, and subject to very long time, in the process, China could take quick measures to make the development of rare earth industry more conducive to environmental protection and resource conservation, it is expected that the impact of litigation on the rare earth enterprises weak.

Rare earth prices continued to fall since countries have launched programs to boost market confidence purchasing and storage, Qilu Securities analyst Yan Lei believes that the emergence of a rare-earth prices or stage a rebound, but still depends on the intensity and persistence of downstream demand.

China exports large quantities of earth, and now China with 36.4% of the reserves bear more than 90% of global supply of rare earth, rare earth for the world market supply and stability has made a great contribution.