Industrial Minerals


WTO decision "no great consequence" to Chinese exports

16 November 2011

by Jessica Roberts

Fluorspar ’11: Government likely to disguise future restrictions through domestic barriers

Keywords: World Trade Organization, WTO, fluorspar, Clyde & Co, IHS

The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) recent recommendation to China on its restriction of key steelmaking raw materials, including fluorspar, is unlikely to change the country’s long-term resource development goals, presentations at IM’s Fluorspar ’11 conference argued.

 

Speaking on the legal implications of the WTO ruling, John Whittaker, partner of law firm Clyde & Co., said that...