Technology used to mine and process rare earths, or to make magnets from rare earths, can only be exported with permission from the government, the Ministry of Commerce said. <\/p>\n
Many of these technologies are already restricted. China had added several rare earths and related material to its export control list in April, which caused a major shortage back then.<\/p>\n
But the new announcement makes clear that licenses are unlikely to be issued to arms manufacturers and certain companies in the chip industry.<\/p>\n
Chinese firms are also banned from working with foreign companies on rare earths without government permission.<\/p>\n
China has been accused by the US and other Western countries of aiding Russia’s war on Ukraine by allowing dual technology exports – materials that can be used for either civilian or military purposes – to be sent to Moscow. Beijing has repeatedly denied this.<\/p>\n
The latest announcement also clarifies the specific technologies and processes that are restricted.<\/p>\n
These include mining, smelting and separation, magnetic material manufacturing, and recycling rare earths from other resources.<\/p>\n
The assembly, debugging, maintenance, repair, and upgrading of production equipment are also prohibited from export without permission, the announcement added.<\/p>\n
This could have an impact on the US, which has a significant rare earths mining industry but lacks processing facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology used to mine and process rare earths, or to make magnets from rare earths, can only be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-187326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}