Japanese import volume of rare earths decreased by 46.3% year-on-year in May when Japanese consumers seemed to reduce

Chinese government could reduce export license of rare earth by 20% for 2008 as a part of the policy to limit minerals like termination of valued added tax return

Japanese rare earth import volume increased for 10 items including rare earths, lithium, titanium and antimony in April from a year earlier, according to trade statistics by Ministry

Japanese rare earth import increased by 49.5% to xxx tonnes in February from a year earlier, according to Ministry of Finance. The lower import was apparently due to delay of issuance of export license

Japanese rare earth import was annual xxx tonnes in 2006 increasing by 12.7% from 2005

It is reported that in 2005 the annual export volume of rare earth products was as much as

Zhang Hongjiang, director of Chinese Rare Earth Society, noted that the output of rare earth products was about xxx mt increasing 21% occupying

According to the figures made by Tianjin Customs that the exported rare earth products reaches xxx mt in the first ten months down 3.8%