Cina, 'stop a controlli su export terre rare e a tasse portuali'

epa03086903 (FILE) A file photo dated 14 September 2005 showing an excavator transporting a large mound of potash (potassium chloride) fertilizer at the Qinghai Salt Lake Industrial Group Co., China's largest producer of such fertilizer, Golmud, western China's Qinghai province. Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO) dismissed a Chinese appeal on 30 January 2012 and upheld its decision that Beijing’s practice of limiting certain raw materials including magnesium should end. Western countries that won the trade dispute over Chinese export restrictions on industrial raw materials, have already set their sights on a new goal: prying open Beijing's restrictive policies on rare earths. However, China is unlikely to budge on these minerals, now sought after by high-tech industries, unless there is a specific new ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO), expert Jaakko Kooroshy said 31 January 2012. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS