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标  题: 最新：土共下狠手-稀土禁运日本
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 22 22:51:26 2010, 美东)

1楼是纽约时报的报道（禁止出口稀土）， 13楼市彭博社的辟谣（不禁止出口稀土给日本），据彭博社人说他们是采访了外经委的发言人得到的消息；
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/2 ... rare.html?src=busln

In Dispute, China Blocks Rare Earth Exports to Japan

HONG KONG — Sharply raising the stakes in a dispute over Japan’s
detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain, the Chinese government
has placed a trade embargo on all exports to Japan of a crucial category
of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided
missiles.


China Takes a Sharper Tone in Dispute With Japan (September 23, 2010)
Chinese customs officials are halting all shipments to Japan of so-
called rare earth elements, industry experts said on Thursday morning.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao personally called for Japan’s
release of the captain, who was detained after his vessel collided with
two Japanese coast guard vessels about 40 minutes apart as he tried to
fish in waters controlled by Japan but long claimed by China. Mr. Wen
threatened unspecified further actions if Japan did not comply.

A Chinese commerce ministry official declined on Thursday to discuss the
country’s trade policy on rare earths, saying only that Mr. Wen’s
comments remained the Chinese government’s position.

China mines 93 percent of the world’s rare earth minerals, and more than
99 percent of the world’s supply of some the most prized rare earths,
which sell for several hundred dollars a pound.

Japan has been the main buyer of Chinese rare earths for many years,
using them for a wide range of industrial purposes, like making glass
for solar panels. They are also used in small steering control motors in
conventional gasoline-powered cars as well as in motors that help propel
hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius.

The Chinese embargo is likely to have immediate repercussions in
Washington, where the House Armed Services Committee has scheduled a
hearing on Oct. 5 to review legislation that would subsidize the revival
of the American rare earths industry. The main American rare earths
mine, located in Mountain Pass, Calif., closed in 2002, but efforts are
under way to reopen it.

The Defense Department has a separate review under way on whether the
United States should develop its own sources of supply for rare earths,
which are also used in equipment including rangefinders on the Army’s
tanks, radar systems aboard Navy vessels and the control vanes on the
Air Force’s smart bombs.

The Chinese embargo is likely to prompt particular alarm in Japan, which
has few natural resources and has long worried about its dependence on
imports. The United States was the main supplier of oil to Japan in the
1930s, and the imposition of an American oil embargo on Japan in 1941,
in an effort to curb Japanese military expansionism, has been cited by
some historians as one of the reasons that Japan subsequently attacked
Pearl Harbor.

Jeff Green, a Washington lobbyist for rare earth processors in the
United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, said that China and Japan
are the only two sources for the initial, semiprocessed blocks of rare
earth magnetic material. If Japan runs out of rare earths from China —
and Japanese companies have been stockpiling in the past two years —
then the United States will have to buy the semiprocessed blocks
directly from China, he said.

“We are going to be 100 percent reliant on the Chinese to make the
components for the defense supply chain,” Mr. Green said.

Japanese companies are now setting up rare earth processing factories in
northern Vietnam, partly to use small reserves of rare earths found
there but also to process rare earths smuggled across the border from
southern China. But the Chinese government has been rapidly tightening
controls on the industry in the past three months in an attempt to limit
smuggling.

There are 17 rare-earth elements — some of which, despite the name, are
not particularly rare — but two heavy rare earths, dysprosium and
terbium, are in especially short supply, mainly because they have
emerged as the miracle ingredients of green energy products.

Tiny quantities of dysprosium can make magnets in electric motors
lighter by 90 percent, while terbium can help cut the electricity usage
of lights by 80 percent. Dysprosium prices have climbed nearly sevenfold
since 2003, to $53 a pound. Terbium prices quadrupled from 2003 to 2008,
peaking at $407 a pound, before slumping in the global economic crisis
to $205 a pound.
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发信人: myjw (monkey), 信区: Military
标  题: 最新：土共下狠手-稀土禁运日本
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 22 22:51:26 2010, 美东)

1楼是纽约时报的报道（禁止出口稀土）， 13楼市彭博社的辟谣（不禁止出口稀土给日本），据彭博社人说他们是采访了外经委的发言人得到的消息；
=======================================================================================
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/2 ... rare.html?src=busln

In Dispute, China Blocks Rare Earth Exports to Japan

HONG KONG — Sharply raising the stakes in a dispute over Japan’s
detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain, the Chinese government
has placed a trade embargo on all exports to Japan of a crucial category
of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided
missiles.


China Takes a Sharper Tone in Dispute With Japan (September 23, 2010)
Chinese customs officials are halting all shipments to Japan of so-
called rare earth elements, industry experts said on Thursday morning.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao personally called for Japan’s
release of the captain, who was detained after his vessel collided with
two Japanese coast guard vessels about 40 minutes apart as he tried to
fish in waters controlled by Japan but long claimed by China. Mr. Wen
threatened unspecified further actions if Japan did not comply.

A Chinese commerce ministry official declined on Thursday to discuss the
country’s trade policy on rare earths, saying only that Mr. Wen’s
comments remained the Chinese government’s position.

China mines 93 percent of the world’s rare earth minerals, and more than
99 percent of the world’s supply of some the most prized rare earths,
which sell for several hundred dollars a pound.

Japan has been the main buyer of Chinese rare earths for many years,
using them for a wide range of industrial purposes, like making glass
for solar panels. They are also used in small steering control motors in
conventional gasoline-powered cars as well as in motors that help propel
hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius.

The Chinese embargo is likely to have immediate repercussions in
Washington, where the House Armed Services Committee has scheduled a
hearing on Oct. 5 to review legislation that would subsidize the revival
of the American rare earths industry. The main American rare earths
mine, located in Mountain Pass, Calif., closed in 2002, but efforts are
under way to reopen it.

The Defense Department has a separate review under way on whether the
United States should develop its own sources of supply for rare earths,
which are also used in equipment including rangefinders on the Army’s
tanks, radar systems aboard Navy vessels and the control vanes on the
Air Force’s smart bombs.

The Chinese embargo is likely to prompt particular alarm in Japan, which
has few natural resources and has long worried about its dependence on
imports. The United States was the main supplier of oil to Japan in the
1930s, and the imposition of an American oil embargo on Japan in 1941,
in an effort to curb Japanese military expansionism, has been cited by
some historians as one of the reasons that Japan subsequently attacked
Pearl Harbor.

Jeff Green, a Washington lobbyist for rare earth processors in the
United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, said that China and Japan
are the only two sources for the initial, semiprocessed blocks of rare
earth magnetic material. If Japan runs out of rare earths from China —
and Japanese companies have been stockpiling in the past two years —
then the United States will have to buy the semiprocessed blocks
directly from China, he said.

“We are going to be 100 percent reliant on the Chinese to make the
components for the defense supply chain,” Mr. Green said.

Japanese companies are now setting up rare earth processing factories in
northern Vietnam, partly to use small reserves of rare earths found
there but also to process rare earths smuggled across the border from
southern China. But the Chinese government has been rapidly tightening
controls on the industry in the past three months in an attempt to limit
smuggling.

There are 17 rare-earth elements — some of which, despite the name, are
not particularly rare — but two heavy rare earths, dysprosium and
terbium, are in especially short supply, mainly because they have
emerged as the miracle ingredients of green energy products.

Tiny quantities of dysprosium can make magnets in electric motors
lighter by 90 percent, while terbium can help cut the electricity usage
of lights by 80 percent. Dysprosium prices have climbed nearly sevenfold
since 2003, to $53 a pound. Terbium prices quadrupled from 2003 to 2008,
peaking at $407 a pound, before slumping in the global economic crisis
to $205 a pound.
--

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