industries is found to be the main reason behind China's export barriers. They are part of a more extensive strategy aiming at …

industries is found to be the main reason behind China's export barriers. They are part of a more extensive strategy aiming at …

the World Trade Organization (WTO), contesting China's export restrictions on rare earth elements (REE). The Requests were … long expected, given the growing importance of REE, coupled with China's near-total dominance in the REE market. This … Article predicts that, in light of the W4TO's recent Appellate Body decision in the China - Raw Materials case, China will not …

Several recent studies have discussed the ramifications of the China-Raw Materials case for China's rare earths …. However, none of these studies has conducted a thorough investigation of China's current export quota regime for rare earths … assumption, investigating China's export quota regime for rare earths as it stands in early June 2012. The regime is somewhat …

The China-Rare Earths decision of the Appellate Body addressed two main issues: (i) whether China’s obligations not to … the exception for China’s export quota measures relating to conservation under Article XX(g) of GATT. In accord with its … China-Raw Materials decision, the Appellate Body found that there is no textual basis for application of the Article XX …

This paper investigates China's capability to exert power on Rare Earth markets until 2020. A dynamic partial …. Export restrictions imply a loss of Marshallian welfare of US$ 1.96 billion outside China. In the short run, even moderate … important for China's capability to exert market power. …