Industrial Minerals


China loses appeal at WTO over raw materials export duties

30 January 2012


Body upholds initial ruling but quashes minimum export agreement complaints

Keywords: fluorspar, manganese, silicon carbide, WTO, China

By Keith Nuthall


The appellate body of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) today dismissed the bulk of China’s appeals against a panel which ruled its export duties and quotas on fluorspar, manganese, and silicon carbide illegal. 

The Chinese government will now have to...