The journalists had been informed by the ministry of industry and clerical affairs alone that the ministry of industry and clerical affairs had led a special investigation team from various ministries, including the ministry of the environment, the ministry of public security, the national tax administration [weibo], the general directorate of business and industry and the ministry of land, which had recently conducted a special inspection of the rare soil in hunan province. The results of the sample show that many trading enterprises are, through a variety of methods, selling illegally stolen and undisclosed rare-earth mineral products, effectively serving as “white gloves” in the illicit flow of “black rare soil”。
The “black rare soil” that has been washed up through trading enterprises is abundant in the market and includes, in addition to illegally established smelting smelting enterprises, smelting smelting enterprises under the umbrella of large rare earth groups, such as chinese aluminium and mines。
The journalists were informed by the ministry of industry and communications that the investigation team was conducting a spot-check of eight rare earth trading enterprises in the three cities of hunan province, the trading company for pocket and rich minerals ltd., the samseng mining limited company in hanquo county, the hancheng county and sun mining company ltd. And the jiang hua rao land development limited, among others, which involved the acquisition of individual illegal mining products and minerals of unknown origin totalling over 4,400 tons, amounting to over 730 million yuan。
It is known that these illegal minerals are “cleaned” by trading enterprises with rare earth-specific vat invoices, and are eventually “lawfully” sold to downstream smelters。
In its investigation, the special inspection team found that three trading enterprises such as hunan and gold trading and trade development co. Ltd., hunan and polytechnic co. Ltd., and double county rich trading co. Ltd. Had acted as the most critical “white gloves” and, after acquiring the products of the four above-mentioned non-compliant enterprises, had issued invoices for value-added tax (vat) exclusive for the rare land, which were subsequently sold to sino-alumian coloured land co., minem 5 and yanzhou express trading co. Ltd. And other trading enterprises。
According to a panellist, in the case of hunan, illegal rare earth minerals, from mining to eventual migration to smelting and separation enterprises, tended to circulate through multiple companies, whose complex relationships had in fact created a complete “black earth” industrial chain, which was typical throughout the country。
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“the number of rare-earth enterprises currently involved in the purchase of `black-earth' is far greater than official knowledge, because if production is carried out strictly in accordance with the state's commandal plans, and enterprises from upstream to downstream generally face the problem of `insufficiency', these idle production capacities become the best channels for digesting the illegally exploited rare-earth mines.” in addition to the profit-driven nature of the trade, which is often carried out by a small-earth source to the economic reference journal, local tax revenues can be increased, and local governments' acquiescence and even condoning of the violations committed by individual enterprises is an important reason for their proliferation. According to incomplete statistics, more than half of the rare soil currently in circulation in the market is “black or rare soil” of unknown and non-production-oriented origin. The normal market order in the rare land has been severely disrupted, with prices for many rare earth products falling by nearly 70 per cent in the past year and falling to the present, in addition to the persistent illegal exploitation, compared with the most recent price peaks around june 2012。
The journalists were informed by the ministry of industry and telecommunication that a multi-sectoral investigation had been carried out into seven rare-earth enterprises in hunan that had broken the law, which had confiscated the proceeds of the violation and imposed a penalty of 1. 4 million yuan. Of these, two companies in changsha city involved in the illegal purchase and sale of rare land in large amounts, the city chamber of commerce and industry referred the case to the public security authorities, and the remaining five companies were fined between $100,000 and $500,000, respectively. Issues that are not clearly identified, such as the origin of mineral products, in the relevant cases will be further verified and offences will be referred to the public security authorities。
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