The report said that the WTO has ruled that China's nine kinds of raw materials such as silicon carbide and bauxite are subject to export restrictions.

WTO has ruled that China's nine raw materials export restrictions violate the EU Trade Commission to pressure China's rare earth export quota policy This newspaper learned from authoritative sources in advance that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that China's export restrictions on nine kinds of raw materials violated WTO related regulations. The dispute began in June 2009, and the EU and the United States brought China's raw material export restriction policy to the WTO. Relevant persons of the WTO said to the newspaper that "there is currently a stage of confidentiality and cannot disclose the content of the ruling." Another source close to the WTO who did not want to be named revealed to the newspaper that the WTO dispute settlement mechanism has notified the parties of the outcome of the ruling in April this year and will announce the results before July 1. In the previous February, it was reported that the WTO issued a preliminary report on the incident and said that the result of the ruling was not good for China. The raw materials involved in the case include nine types of alumina, coke, fluorite, magnesium, manganese, ferrosilicon, silicon carbide, yellow phosphorus and zinc, and do not include rare earths that have exerted tremendous pressure on China in recent days. EU Commissioner for Trade Affairs De Gucht said on June 14 that the WTO's ruling on the case will be the guiding principle for how to deal with the export restrictions on raw materials including rare earths in the future. This is also what domestic academics are worried about. De Gucht made the above statement at the “Commodities and Raw Materials Policy Forum” in Brussels. European Commission President Barroso also said that the EU strongly appealed to the French presidency to include raw materials issues on the G20 agenda. It is not an obligation of WTO members to have omissions in the WTO provisions . However, when China entered the WTO in 2001, it promised that, in addition to export taxes on the listed 84 products, no export tax will be imposed on other products. Among the nine raw materials involved in this case, only manganese, zinc and yellow phosphorus are products subject to export tax. However, in some specific cases, the WTO Agreement allows Member States to conduct export controls; one particular case is the protection of non-renewable natural resources. This is also the main basis for China's position in the dispute settlement. A WTO official close to the case told this reporter that China has said that the purpose of the export control policy is to protect the environment. However, the WTO Agreement does not provide more detailed provisions on environmental protection provisions. The WTO dispute settlement mechanism does not make a ruling based on the omission of this provision. The key point of consideration is whether a country’s export control policy treats both domestic production and foreign exports equally. Based on this, the WTO ruling is not good for China. According to its dispute settlement procedure, the parties can appeal within 60 days after the ruling report. If the appeal fails, China needs to cancel export control or face retaliatory sanctions. Judging the precedent or influencing the rare earth dispute Tu Xinquan, vice president of the China WTO School of the University of International Business and Economics, once pointed out to the media that China’s export quotas and tariff system for rare earths are similar to those applicable in this case. Therefore, it is not excluded that if the WTO makes a ruling against China, the parties will push the trade policy of China's rare earth to the dispute arbitration platform of the WTO. The aforementioned reliable sources also warned that the EU can follow the path of the case to bring the rare earth issue to the WTO. Compared with import restrictions such as tariffs and non-trade barriers, the WTO has relatively weak rules and regulations in the field of export restrictions, and its rhetoric is large, and there is a lot of room for interpretation. The new trend in world trade shows that more and more Trade disputes exist in the export sector. Therefore, the Chief of the Minerals Council of Australia, Mictchell Hooke, believes that the WTO's ruling on the case will be an important step in how the export restrictions on raw materials will develop. The EU also finds sources of rare earth supply. The EU believes that high-tech technology is the future economic competitiveness of the EU. Compared with traditional industries, the demand for rare raw materials is highly advanced, so the EU will also ensure the safety of raw materials supply as a strategic consideration. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said at the forum on the 14th that the EU advocates that the raw materials and commodities should be placed under the same framework issue at the G20 summit at the end of this year to seek solutions at the international level. France, the G20 presidency, has not yet included raw material issues on the agenda. It was originally scheduled to discuss only the issue of the safe and equal supply of bulk commodities such as food and energy. In addition to guaranteeing supply, the EU is actively looking for alternative sources of supply. Antonio Tajani, vice president of industrial affairs for the European Commission, revealed on the 14th that he will meet with the Prime Minister of Greenland on June 15 to discuss the cooperation between the two sides on rare earths. The plateau in southern Greenland discovered the rarest rare earth metal deposits in the world in 2009, and Greenland became a rare earth producer with the potential to compete with China. At present, 95% of the world's rare earth production comes from China. The third pillar of the EU's response to scarcity of raw materials is to strengthen the research and development of the recycling of these materials, which is also an important aspect of the EU's recently announced innovation policy. By the end of this year, the EU will introduce a public-private partnership for recycling research and development.  

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