A spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce asked reporters about recent China-related economic and trade policy measures.

1, a reporter asked: On October 9, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs issued an announcement to implement export controls on relevant rare-earth items.

A:China has issued export control measures on rare earth and other related objects, which is the Chinese government's law and regulations to improve its own export control system. The current world situation is uncertain, military conflict has occurred, the Chinese side noticed that the medium-heavy rare earth related objects have important applications in the military field. China is a responsible big country, implementing export control of related objects in accordance with the law, the aim is to better maintain world peace and regional stability, and fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation.

China's export control is not a ban on exports, and compliance applications will be authorized.Before the measures were announced, China has notified relevant countries and regions through the bilateral export control dialogue mechanism.China is willing to strengthen export control dialogue and exchanges with countries to better safeguard the security and stability of the global supply chain.

2, a reporter asked: We noted that the Ministry of Commerce recently issued an announcement to strengthen the export control of rare earth and other related items, please ask how will the follow-up be implemented?

A:As a responsible big country, China has always firmly safeguarded its national security and international common security, always adhered to the fair and reasonable principle position, and prudently and moderately implemented export control measures.The Chinese side has fully assessed the possible impact of the measures on the supply chain, and is convinced that the relevant impact is very limited.

Subsequently, the Chinese government will conduct license review in accordance with the law, allow the application to comply with the provisions, at the same time, actively consider the application of general license, license exemption and other various facilitation measures to effectively promote compliance trade. I want to emphasize that China's export control is not prohibited exports, as long as it is used for civilian use, compliance export applications can be approved, relevant enterprises need not worry.

On October 10, the US side announced that it will impose a 100% tariff on China on export controls on rare earth and other related items adopted by China and implement export controls on all key software.

A:China has taken note of the relevant situation. On October 9, China issued export control measures on rare earths and other related items. This is a normal behavior of the China government to improve its own export control system in accordance with laws and regulations. As a responsible major country, China has always firmly safeguarded its own national security and international common security, always upheld the principled stance of fairness, rationality and non-discrimination, and implemented export control measures prudently and appropriately. The relevant US statement is a typical "double standard." For a long time, the United States has generalized national security, abused export controls, adopted discriminatory practices against China, and implemented unilateral long-arm jurisdiction measures on many products such as semiconductor equipment and chips. The United States has more than 3000 items on its control list, while China has only more than 900 items on its export control list. The United States has a long history of using the minimum content rule for export control, as low as 0%. Relevant US measures have seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises, seriously impacted the international economic and trade order, and seriously undermined the security and stability of the global production and supply chain.

Especially since the China-US Economic and Trade Talks in Madrid in September, in just over 20 days, the United States has continued to introduce a series of new restrictive measures against China, including many China entities on the export control entity list and specially designated national list; Arbitrary expansion of the scope of controlled enterprises through penetrating rules, affecting thousands of Chinese enterprises; ignoring China's concerns and goodwill, it insists on implementing the 301 Measures in China's maritime, logistics and shipbuilding industries. The US behavior seriously harms China's interests and seriously undermines the atmosphere of economic and trade talks between the two sides. China firmly opposes this.

Threatening high tariffs at every turn is not the right way to get along with China. China's position on the tariff war is consistent. We are unwilling to fight it, but we are not afraid to fight it. China urges the United States to correct its wrong practices as soon as possible, take the important consensus reached by the two heads of state on the phone as a guide, safeguard the hard-won consultation results, continue to play the role of the Sino-US economic and trade consultation mechanism, resolve their respective concerns through dialogue on the basis of mutual respect and equal consultation, properly manage differences, and maintain the stable, healthy and sustainable development of Sino-US economic and trade relations. If the United States insists on going its own way, China will resolutely take corresponding measures to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.