After the breakdown in consultations with China, the EU asked the World Trade Organisation on Wednesday 26 October to set up a dispute settlement panel to arbitrate on its complaint on 19 July lodged against Chinese restrictions on the export of 12 raw materials (antimony, chromium, cobalt, copper, ferronickel, graphite, indium, lead, magnesia, talc, tantalum and tin).
The EU’s complaint is about Chinese export duty for antimony, chromium, cobalt, copper, graphite, lead, magnesia,...