Legal Issues Export Restrictions Under The WTO Framework Scarce Resources

Globalization has the resources and the environment is gradually incorporated into national sovereignty category, there is conflict between free trade and resources, environment, sovereignty. With the resources and the increasingly fierce competition, the contradiction of raw materials trade and environmental protection raw materials trade and sovereignty, has become increasingly prominent, the reform of the existing multilateral trading system is facing the choices. According to many legal problems of China’s current export and protect the rare resources exist, seek relevant legal basis for the rare resources protection legislation in the national sovereignty of the horizon, and on this basis, through the comparison of existing laws and in-depth study of WTO related regulations, improve the relevant domestic system, carries on the analysis to the related legal problems still exist currently exports and protect the rare resources of our country, and then combined with the actual conditions of our country and the international environment, and proposed the corresponding solution, to deal with possible trade disputes, protection of rare and non-renewable resources, and provide a reference for formulating and improving relevant legislation of rare resources protection in China in the future. A sovereign state based on the guarantee domestic supply of raw materials, sustainable development and keep the environment, the protection of national security reasons such as management, should have the right to limit their non-renewable resource exploitation and export, but exports of raw materials measures to restrict China has touched a sensitive nerve of the international community. As the raw material of high-tech industry indispensable rare earth is likely to become the next target. The protection of rare and non-renewable resources, sustainable development has become a pressing matter of the moment to keep the environment.