| The person in charge of the Treaty and Legal Affairs of the Ministry
of Commerce has issued a statement, said the Chinese policy objective is
to protect resources and the environment and achieve sustainable
development, has no intention to protect domestic industries through
trade-distorting.The litigation involving the rare earth,fake oakleys
tungsten, molybdenum are rare metals, widely used in metallurgy,
machinery, chemicals, aerospace and other fields, a precious
non-renewable resources, are goods included in the export quota license
management.Move the United States spearheaded the litigation can be
expected, "said Foreign Economic and Trade University, China WTO
Research Institute Tu Xinquan, the U.S.cheap oakley sunglasses
economic recovery is still slow this year to catch up with the election
year, this time to stir up litigation. economic and political
doublethink.100 million tons of rare earth reserves in the world's
proven, China accounted for 36%. But for a long time, China was
supplying more than 90 percent of the global rare earths market. Rich
rare earth resources in the United States and other Western countries,
not exploitation of rare earth, rare earth but a large number of imports
from China.China in the mining of rare earth to pay the huge
environmental costs, and rare earth separation of the chemical processes
to produce large quantities of pollutants has been devastating to the
environment. Allegedly, of which only a wealth of rare earth resources,
Gannan, if damage to the mining of rare earth and other mineral land for
ecological restoration,replica oakleys
initially expected capital investment of up to more than 38 billion
yuan.Given the scarcity of rare earth resources and serious pollution to
the environment, China has adopted a series of measures to strengthen
the management of rare metals, including rare earth mining, production
and processing to governance and appropriate management is no longer to
take a single trade policy, while through industrial policy,
environmental protection measures, to regulate domestic production,
consumption and exports of rare earths, including export quota
management.The end of January this year, the WTO Appellate Panel of
Experts to confirm the Chinese to limit the nine kinds of bauxite, coke,
and other industrial raw materials exports in violation of trade rules.
In accordance with WTO commitments, China can take measures to the
imposition of export tariffs on 84 tariff lines of products. Involved in
nine kinds of industrial raw materials do not contain, including the
Chinese side involved in export tariffs and export quotas to invoke GATT
Article 20 of the protection of exhaustible natural resources exception
of the defense. However, the Appellate Body report, which did not get
the support of the panel and Appellate Body. |