Trade officials consider how to react to China’s rare-earth policy
OCT 14, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024743
New York Times : For three weeks, Hitachi, Sony, and other Japanese electronics companies have not received any shipments of lanthanum, neodymium, and other rare earths from China. The export embargo, thought to be provoked by Japan’s arrest at sea of a Chinese trawler captain, is neither acknowledged nor documented, which, as the New York Times‘s Keith Bradsher explains, makes it hard for Japan to respond through the World Trade Organization and other official channels. Trade officials in Japan, the US, and other countries are considering alternative methods for dealing with what could become a threat to their economies.
© 2010 American Institute of Physics
