Despite early reports to the contrary, China will not ban exports of rare earth metals, the New York Times reports. Instead, China will just virtually ban them : A copy of the draft rules, viewed Thursday, said China would further reduce its combined annual export quotas for all rare-earth elements to 35,000 tons a year, from 53,000 tons last year and almost 66,000 tons as recently as 2005. The draft policy also clearly stated that exports of dysprosium and terbium were to be prohibited a
