Despite early reports to the contrary, China will not ban exports of rare earth metals, the New York Times reports. Instead, China will just virtually ban them: ...

World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports ... restrict exports of rare earth metals that are produced only in China and play ...

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Sep 4, 2009 ... It just slashes the amount allowed to be exported and adds a 42% tax to them.

Aug 1, 2010 ... But analysts fear that China may drop exports of rare earth elements to ... complete export ban of the most critical of the rare earth elements. .... Rare that that this article does not includes, a country called Chile, ...

But analysts fear that China may drop exports of rare earth elements to exactly zero ... a complete export ban of the most critical of the rare earth elements. .... China does not have a monopoly on the Rare Earth Elements but at the ...