You'll recall China slashed rare earth export quotas 35% at the start of this year, on top of a 40% cut six months earlier.

你或许还记得，中国今年年初将六个月前刚缩减40%的稀土出口配额再减少35%。

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China is the biggest rare earth producer and reserve country in the world, and it possesses over 50% market share of the global rare earth export.

我国是世界上最大的稀土生产和储备国，占全球稀土出口50%以上的市场份额。

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As the first batch of rare earth export quotas was released at the end of 2010, by how much will this year's total rare earth export under the quotas be reduced compared with that in last year?

我们在去年年底已经发布对于稀土出口的第一批的配额，请问今年全年的配额相加对于稀土的出口和去年相比，到底会减少到一个什么样的程度？

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China is allowing more companies to export rare earth after they met new environmental standards, but a decline in exports of the minerals suggests policy restrictions haven't kept pace with how swiftly demand has soured.

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If anything, there has been a marked sharpening of Europe's tone towards China over economic issues: the value of the yuan, European firms' access to the Chinese market, restrictions on the export of rare-earth minerals essential to high-tech industries and China's acquisition of western intellectual property, by fair means or foul.

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