There are no export restrictions on the export of items actually made from rare earths.
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None of these companies have to deal with the types of export restrictions facing American firms.
Examples discussed included export restrictions in China on rare earth metals and in Indonesia on palm oil.
But beyond those export restrictions, the company leaves it up to its customers to adhere to local laws.
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And, simultaneously, by artificially increasing domestic supply, the same export restrictions advantage Chinese manufacturing consumers of those materials.
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The growth of unilateral trade measures, notably export restrictions, was also a key topic of discussion at the symposium.
Other producers say U.S. export restrictions have forced them out of the business.
Last year China argued that its export restrictions were needed to protect the environment, conserve supplies and meet domestic demand.
Apple, however, is working toward getting the U.S. authorities to lift the export restrictions to the listed countries, he said.
The technology became the subject of a controversy when it spread beyond U.S. borders and raised questions of export restrictions.
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Furthermore, one of the manufacturers identified in the legal action said it did not oppose the government imposing export restrictions.
Panicked by rising food prices in 2007, more than 30 governments, from Ukraine to China, introduced export restrictions for farm produce.
With our own import restricitons firmly in place, the United States is suing China to remove its export restrictions on the same products.
China gave up export restrictions when it joined the WTO, but it has gone back to imposing them in the last few years.
The disciplines we have on export restrictions are still much shallower.
Despite its initial loss on its export restrictions, Beijing maintains that its rare-earth rules, similar to those just struck down, comply with its WTO obligations.
Analysts now expect devaluation and tough spending cuts, along with continued export restrictions, which has the potential to exacerbate the collateral effects of his populism.
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To bring the apps to Egypt, Whisper Systems had to redesign parts of its VoIP protocol and negotiate the bureaucracy of U.S. export restrictions on encryption.
Export restrictions also exacerbate the rise of global food prices.
Though the WTO has for the most part focused on reducing import restrictions, over the last decade there has been a growth in the use of unilateral export restrictions.
Muller-Maguhn noted that unlike the U.S., which imposes export restrictions on strong encryption, Germany has politicians who listened to advice from the hacker community and chose not to impose similar controls.
The contention is that China's export restrictions on raw materials, which discourage the sale abroad of coke, zinc and other industrial commodities, are conferring "unfair preferences" in favor of its own manufacturers.
As soon as it was brought to the attention of the Export Control Organisation and Lord Mandelson we acted urgently to put in place export restrictions which will come into force next week.
Currency manipulation, subsidization of industry, dumping, intellectual property theft, discrimination against imports, forced technology transfer, indigenous innovation policies, raw material export restrictions, and other allegations of cheating came to define Chinese trade practices.
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At the 3-4 April Vancouver Summit, President Clinton assured President Yeltsin that he would reexamine existing export restrictions on Russia, with a view toward sharply reducing if not eliminating the present regime.
The Romanian President Traian Basescu has warned that his country could face potential export restrictions and lose credibility "for many years" if his country's butchers are revealed to be the root of the problem.
Even if and when China relents with respect to its export restrictions, the U.S. antidumping restrictions on imported raw materials will persist because the law effectively insulates the patrons of antidumping measures from competition.
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At the 3-4 April Vancouver Summit, President Clinton assured President Yeltsin that he would reexamine existing export restrictions on Russia, with a view toward sharply reducing -- if not eliminating -- the present regime.
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