A few days ago, the United States and the European Union filed a joint lawsuit to the WTO, accusing China's bauxite, fluorspar, coal, manganese, silicon carbide, zinc and other 9 kinds of industrial raw materials to implement measures to limit exports, saying it violated the WTO rules and China accession to the WTO commitments. We all know, the United States is very rich in oil resources, but has restrictions on its domestic oil resources exploitation and utilization of forest resources in the United States is very rich, but its clear that the majority are not allowed to cut timber exports, Canada, Australia and other countries of a similar practices.
In fact, according to the agreement's entry into the WTO, China has the right to nearly a hundred kinds of products and raw materials export restrictions. For the export of raw materials, have been criticized, it is critical of a lot of ceramic industry, today. China has a vast territory, has extremely rich mineral resources. 80's in the primary and secondary school textbooks for the introduction of the motherland, and ultimately, "vast territory and rich resources," such words. However, since the new century, so that the words in the play down, and why? Reform and opening up a development bound to a certain degree of consumption of resources and energy, two large amount of valuable raw materials and export of unlimited exploitation is one of the reasons why, including many non-renewable resources.
As we all know, the development of ceramic raw materials are the most basic material conditions, there is "is the basis of raw materials, sintering is the key," saying the name. Thus the birth of a number of manufacturers of ceramic raw materials driven by economic interests, to direct valuable resources as a commodity for sale. China is the world's largest producer of ceramics, quasi-world manufacturing center of ceramic production, which benefited from sufficient mineral resources, has a wealth of raw materials for the foundation. But now, the increasing depletion of mineral resources and reduce the already seriously affected the sustainable development of the ceramic industry. For example, China's famous ceramic producing areas - Foshan, Guangdong, Hebei Tangshan, local resources have been exhausted and had to turn to neighboring provinces, continued to increase the radius of the procurement, production costs continued to rise. Importantly, a little bit of mineral resources in the reduction in the export of raw materials are still endlessly to make a continuous shrinking of foreign currency. Ceramic industry should be growing anti-Wei Du, and foster a sense of crisis, in particular, a considerable number of domestic and international shortage of mineral resources, such as feldspar, and clay mining and so on, should be included in the list of restrictions on exports, or even simply to ban the export.
Some experts point out that, with the ceramic production technology and equipment, color glaze, matching conditions become more sophisticated, the production capacity in China as the world's most powerful producers of ceramics, their processing of the overall efficiency of exports, export ore than good. Even if the export of processed raw materials, due to the quality of products that kind of instability, which has also affected the export prices of ceramic raw materials and efficiency. A large number of China's ceramic products exported to international markets, on foreign refined raw materials, such as glaze, color, blank, all kinds of auxiliary materials is also on the rise in import demand. In China, ceramic raw materials, processing and use, there are still many of the less than satisfactory, to respond to modern fine processing, standardization and serialization of the development of measures to the processing of ceramic raw materials as an international view of the product to meet the the demand for the domestic market to minimize the foreign imports, the expansion of domestic market share. Reduce the export of raw materials, manufacturers of raw materials is much to gain. If the ceramic raw materials and control of mineral exports, domestic demand growth in ceramic industry, our high-quality ceramic raw materials or export will be reduced, prices will rise, benefits will be a corresponding rise.
In addition, the sources said, mineral exploitation or damage to be taken directly to changes in the natural environment, in view of a considerable number of mining companies to resume work on the environment have sufficient understanding of investment is not enough of these non-renewable resources, low-cost exports, would be tantamount to betrayal of the environment in disguise. Such problems, should be of general concern of society as a whole. Ceramics, it is faced with such accusations.
Countries have begun to export restrictions on raw materials is a good long time in order to raw material consumption as the main object of the ceramic industry should be alert, but also should consider the situation carefully.