It is concluded from statistics in China’s major stainless steel plants that output of hot and cold rolled both increased to some extent in July

In the first half of 2008, China’s output of stainless steel was 2.51m tons with an increase of 3.3% compared with the same period last year with an output of 2.43m tons

Japanese rare earth metals import decreased by 14% to xxx tonnes in June from a year earlier, announced by Ministry of Finance. The average unit price of rare earth

Japanese import volume of rare earths decreased by 46.3% year-on-year in May when Japanese consumers seemed to reduce

Chinese government could reduce export license of rare earth by 20% for 2008 as a part of the policy to limit minerals like termination of valued added tax return

Japanese rare earth import volume increased for 10 items including rare earths, lithium, titanium and antimony in April from a year earlier, according to trade statistics by Ministry

Japanese rare earth import increased by 49.5% to xxx tonnes in February from a year earlier, according to Ministry of Finance. The lower import was apparently due to delay of issuance of export license

Japanese rare earth import was annual xxx tonnes in 2006 increasing by 12.7% from 2005