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Rampant smuggling and weak demand have led to a large decrease in the amount of rare earths exported from China through legal channels.

China, the supplier of 90 percent of the world's rare earths, cut mining rights for the materials by about half to 65 nationwide to help the industry consolidate and create bigger producers.

Eight major rare-earth mineral production bases in Guangdong Province signed framework agreements with Guangdong Rare Earth Industry Group on Saturday

Japanese rare earth import was very low in July compared with the same month a year ago, according to Ministry of Finance. The procurement

It is concluded from statistics in China’s major stainless steel plants that output of hot and cold rolled both increased to some extent in July

In the first half of 2008, China’s output of stainless steel was 2.51m tons with an increase of 3.3% compared with the same period last year with an output of 2.43m tons

Japanese rare earth metals import decreased by 14% to xxx tonnes in June from a year earlier, announced by Ministry of Finance. The average unit price of rare earth