China pledges to crack down on illicit exports of rare earths, urges US to lift more trade controls

Bangkok – The Chinese state security agency claims that it reprimanded the alleged smuggling of rare earth minerals which, according to national security, in weeks, a few weeks after Beijing and Washington agreed to facilitate the obtaining of American companies from China, which are essential for the manufacture and production of computer flea.

In a report published Friday in the newspaper managed by the Global Times, the Ministry of State Security said that “foreign spy and intelligence agencies were collusion to steal goods related to rare earths by reconditioning and rare metals to hide their Chinese origin.

In some cases, minerals have been wrongly declared as uncontrolled items, poorly labeled like things such as “welding paste”, mixed with other materials such as ceramic tiles, or hidden in plastic models or bottled water, he said.

He only referred to an unnamed “country” which, according to him, had the capacity to manufacture and refine his own rare land.

The surveys had revealed that Chinese criminals were involved, operating shipping and delivery channels to escape the exports of the materials used in many high-tech applications, including electric vehicle batteries, he said.

The repression followed a report by Reuters earlier this month, detailing how rare earths were transmitted to the United States via Thailand and Mexico.

China is the main source of many strategically vital land and has evolved to slow down the exports of these minerals in retaliation for the steep import rights that President Donald Trump has imposed on Chinese products since his return to the White House and has launched his crusade to cancel a global negotiation system which, according to him, is unfair to the United States and its workers.

This follows a previous series of Beijing restrictions on material exports such as gallium, Germanium, antimony and tungsten in response to commercial friction with the administration of the president of the time, Joe Biden.

In April, Beijing imposed permitted requirements on seven rare elements, under Chinese law that applies to all exports, not just those intended for the American market.

The authorization process taking 45 days, the new requirement caused a break in expeditions, threatening to disrupt the production of cars, robots, wind turbines and other high-tech products in the United States and worldwide. The United States, on the other hand, has added to restrictions on exports of advanced technologies to China.

Rare earths have remained at the center of the talks in China-US aimed at extinguishing huge tariff increases that were postponed in May in order to leave time for negotiations on a wider trade agreement. The deadline to reach an agreement is August 12.

An agreement announced at the end of June did not delete China’s authorization requirements on rare earths, but Beijing has agreed to compose or lower the approval process if necessary.

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The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said on Friday that it had noted a decision by the Trump administration to raise restrictions on the exports of key semiconductors used in the artificial intelligence made by Nvidia and its rivals advanced micro-apparements.

In April, the Trump administration announced that it would restrict sales of the H20 flea in Nvidia in China – as well as the MI308 fleas of AMD.

But the spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, Wang Wentao, said that the restoration of healthy commercial links will require more Washington action.

US export controls on the Ascend chips carried out by the Chinese giant of Huawei Technologies technology has harmed the interests of Chinese companies, Wang told journalists in Beijing.

“We hope that the United States and China will meet halfway and will correct their bad practices thanks to an equal consultation, will create a good environment for mutually beneficial cooperation between companies of both parties and jointly maintain the stability of global production of production and semiconductor supplies,” he said.