De-Chinese rare earth elements … Movement "trade embargo" three years in Japan to mistake to Japan

Movement over the issue of rare earth elements
After the fishing boat collision case off Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki-shi, Okinawa) which rose on September 7, 2010 in China, take the measures that China is thought to be economic sanctions to Japan; and approximately three years. What kind of influence did the resources which were indispensable to an engine of hybrid car (HV), the reinforcement of the export of rare earth elements (rare earth elements) regulation have on the both sides in the daytime?
It decreases by 66% of export, and compensation is big
The virtual embargo of the rare earth elements which became the symbol of economic sanctions to Japan. The rare earth elements price rose suddenly, and Japan was pressed for de-rare earth elements and a breakaway from dependence in China, and the investment of the company increased, too. However, I fall into oversupply afterwards, and the rare earth elements digging business of China is sluggish. The compensation with resources supplies as the card of diplomatic negotiations was not small at all.
Baotou City of China, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. There are few entering companies of a very large industrial area toward the technical base of the world's largest rare earth elements and is deserted. Inhabitants of Xinshi District that can accommodate 1 million people in the known Orr DOS city as a coal production center adjacent to the city are called "even an ogre castle" (ghost town) by 30,000 without being filled.
When "I built the town, I expected the investment of the millionaire of the Bayan Obo (the mine city approximately 150 kilos away from Baotou), but the bubble split open Baotou that gave profit with rare earth elements". The person concerned talks in this way. Getting chilled of coal and the rare earth elements demand overlapped with real estate and changed the scenery of the town.
The Chinese greatest rare earth elements production supplier, the stock prices of the parcel steel rare soil are 30 yuan (approximately 480 yen) degree now. It declines to approximately a one-third in comparison with three years ago that was a peak. I decrease, and, according to the statistics of the Chinese customs total police station, the export of rare earth elements of the last year remains in 906 million dollars (approximately 90 billion yen) for 66.1% from the last year.
"The tendency to decrease does not stop this year either". From about the summer of last year, many affiliates are driven into the substantial production stop. It is the present conditions to reduce stock little by little. The person concerned with a certain rare earth elements company continues to ask.
Besides, the difficult problem happened. It is the smuggling of rare earth elements. After export regulation, it is said that there is the case which the employee of the rare earth elements company where an income decreased to threw on a smuggler.
Because the outer layer of the ground is near as for the rare earth elements, digging is relatively simple, and a smuggler carries it out as "soil", and cases to sell off at a low price increase rapidly. There are a lot of things that rare earth elements smuggled out passed to Japan via Hong Kong or Taiwan, and smuggling "gives a big blow for rare earth elements industry" (Vice-Minister resurrection crowd of ministry of Chugokukogyo computerization). There are not the correct statistics data, but there is the Chinese media to suppose to be approximately 1.2 times of the formal export.
The reason why "the Chinese government did not carry out economic sanctions at the time of angling island (the name of a country out of one of Senkaku Islands) nationalization of the last year for Japan is that there was the reflection two years" ago. The Chinese diplomatic person concerned fails to ask and tells, "I mistook" influence of the movement of the rapid de-rare earth elements which nominated Japanese public and private sectors
It is manufacturing town Haiphong City in approximately 100 kilos east from capital Hanoi, Vietnam. In the Dinh Vu industrial area which faced the South China Sea, Shin-Etsu Chemical operated the factory which I separated, and was refined of the main material of the rare earth elements magnet in earnest.
It is the result that "began examination of the establishment in Vietnam which there was not of the base really till then since I receive the situation of China" (the company). The investment is 2 billion yen. Under the influence of an export stop of China, rare earth elements price rises suddenly. Dysprosium to use for a high efficiency magnet to put on HV jumped up more than 10 times with more than 1 kilo 3,000 dollars in the previous year in comparison with April in July, 23.
The virtual rare earth elements embargo just after the collision case was the opportunity when the company reviewed a business policy some other time. Dysprosium which is used to use the magnet under the high temperature situation stably is because it is almost the fact that only China has.

The paring at the time of edge materials and the cutting that it occurs by a production process and only abandoned before is recycling. In rare earth elements consumption to make rare earth elements magnet now, ten several percent are made from a recycling product. Furthermore, I develop the new manufacturing method that can maintain magnetic force with consumption of dysprosium as half. I say (the company) "adopting the magnet which reduced dysprosium in most companies of the customer point".
Besides, there is more likely to be the vein where dysprosium is produced in Vietnam. In the company, the use of rare earth elements from Kazakhstan turns eyes to the country except China of examination; was a chance big.
Honda which released low mileage HV of the world highest level this month. I began a full-scale development of the reuse technology of rare earth elements from the spring of this year. I consign it to a small country establishment (Oguni-machi, Yamagata) of Japan Metals & Chemicals and collect rare earth elements from a used nickel metal hydride battery of HV and start business to sell to the battery maker in this March. In June, I began an action to reuse as a magnet of the motor for HV with TDK.
Pace of the collection considers it to go up it after two years considered that the junk cars of the Honda's first HV "in site" which it released for 11 years increase. I am going to collect not only Japan but also the used battery in U.S. Europe.
The government promotes a technique and the development of substitute materials, decentralization of the procurement including the securing of mine rights and interests to reduce the consumption of rare earth elements. I was forced to adding up of approximately 100 billion yen as measures costs by the revised budget in 22, but emphasize it with (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry official) that "it is necessary to prevent China from using the export of rare earth elements limit as a diplomacy card".
"I watched it in a world pair and worsened it"
The Chinese dependence of rare earth elements decreased rapidly. It was 87.7%, but, according to Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), as for the Chinese share among import amounts of money of Japan, is decreased to 60.4% for 24 years for 22 years. China reduced the rare earth elements export total sum of the same year by the demand decrease that was the greatest export destination of Japan more than 60% compared with the previous year.
II tell, not only "I enhanced caution to China of the Japanese company, but also the Takamoto Suzuki senior economist of Marubeni Economic Research Institute has changed the world viewpoint for China". Japan presents it to World Trade Organization (WTO) with the United States, European Union (EU) in last March saying that the Chinese government regulates the export of rare earth elements unfairly. It is expected that a judgment is given within this year.
China does not still admit that I assumed resources a diplomatic tool. Were there the direct instructions about the embargo of rare earth elements from government nerve center?
"The State Affairs Administration (the government) loses initiative to the hard-liners such as the militaries to Japan when I do not prevent the jurisdiction use to a captain early". As a result of having looked for economic means to put to Japan pressure, rare earth elements embargo might surface first. Mr. Toshiya Tsugami of the modern Chinese student analyzes it in bureaucrats of former Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in this way.
I point out, Shingo Ito, the Chinese general manager of the Mizuho Research Institute Asia research department "should have known suitable China which got retaliation when it does not pay that the leadership uses carelessly economical means for the achievement of the political purpose".

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De-Chinese rare earth elements … Movement "trade embargo" three years in Japan to mistake to Japan