对任何一个有志于军事、航空航天、电子、石化和新材料工业的国家来说,稀土无异于“工业黄金”。而近些年,由稀土引发的国际贸易争端,则或明或暗地反照出国家间战略资源博弈的加剧。6月27日,美国、欧盟和日本提请世界贸易组织争端解决机构成立专家组,调查中国稀土等原材料出口限制措施案。美欧日与中国稀土之争,在WTO争端解决机制框架之内,又被推前一步。事实上,对资源性产品的出口限制几乎是WTO所有成员的一致性行动,许 For any country interested in the military, aerospace, electronics, petrochemicals and new materials industries, rare earth is tantamount to “industrial gold.” In recent years, rare earths triggered by international trade disputes, either overtly or implicitly reflects the aggravation of the game of strategic resources between countries. June 27, the United States, the European Union and Japan drew the WTO dispute settlement agency set up an expert group to investigate China’s rare earth and other raw materials export restrictions measures. The dispute over the rare earths in the United States, Europe, Japan and China has taken another step forward within the framework of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism. In fact, export restrictions on resource-based products are almost a concerted action by all WTO members and allow