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"I endorsed this report because Europe needs a proper raw materials strategy in order to increase its competitiveness. This need has been made all the more obvious by the affair recently referred to at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), where the European Union, the United States and Mexico are in conflict with China. The WTO has ruled in favour of the first group, which accused China of employing protectionist practices in order to increase the price of nine raw materials (including zinc, bauxite and magnesium). Although China is challenging this ruling, the European Union’s response is along the right lines: an ‘internal’ strategy, including incentives to recycle and to ensure transparency in relation to stocks, is no longer enough. The EU must use all the tools at its disposal, including trade protection instruments, to ensure that its businesses have free and fair access to raw materials. Furthermore, the EU, in its leading role as a promoter of human rights and fundamental freedoms, must do everything in its power to combat the trade in, and use of, minerals from conflict zones, not least by strengthening raw materials traceability systems and introducing a mandatory certification scheme for raw materials."@en1
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