Outlook Strategic Commodities
Situation with rare earths At the end of November, Beijing published a list of 28 companies that will also be allocated export quotas for 2014. First of all, this means that the previous WTO ruling was unable to induce China to lift its export quotas. For the first time, a well-known company is listed by name as "unqualified" because in 2013 it was due to smuggling [...]
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TRADE PARTNER RECOGNITION - Faster, better, cheaper
TRADE PARTNER RECOGNITION - Faster, Better, Cheaper May 14.05.2012, XNUMX - “Today's agreement is an important step for trade relations between the EU and the US,” said EU Taxation and Customs Union Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta last Friday. The Lithuanian politician means the recently agreed agreement between the European Union and the United States of [...]
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Regulation of the rare earths under attack
Regulation of rare earths under attack 30.04.2012/1980/1990 - In the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, China sold large quantities of its rare earth deposits to other countries very cheaply. According to a Chinese expert, the current requirement to continue offering such bargains in the long term would be quite irrational. Zhang Anwen, deputy general secretary of the China Rare Earth Society, said on [...]
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China is preparing for a lawsuit with the US and the EU
New Approaches to Settling the Old Rare Earth Dispute 17.04.2012/13/XNUMX - China is preparing for a legal battle brought by the United States, the EU and Japan over China's export controls on rare earth minerals. The triumvirate of industrial powers brought the case to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on March XNUMX. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology [...]
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China is suffering from severe pollution from rare earth mining
China suffers from severe environmental pollution from mining of rare earths 13.04.2012/32,9/4 - China pays a high price for the mining of rare earths. It is said that one year gold will be sold for the price of cabbage. The province of Jiangxi in China, which is rich in rare earth ores, raised XNUMX billion yuan (XNUMX billion euros) last year [...]
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USA against China, Europe against USA: The world gets entangled in trade wars. Are they threatening our prosperity?
April 06.04.2012th, XNUMX - The daily water battle USA against China, Europe against USA: The world is embroiled in trade wars. Do they threaten our prosperity? Barack Obama is currently having a new agency set up in Washington. It will be called the Trade Enforcement Center, and will assist American companies in doing business around the world. If business partners against American [...]
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