中国商务部表示，稀土出口管制与出口禁令不同。作为提醒，我们周一在华盛顿举行了美中官员的工作人员级会议。双方都在努力避免此事进一步升级，但我们还没有取得任何有意义的突破，尽管降级仍然是市场的基本情况。

China's Commerce Ministry says rare earth export controls are different to an export ban.As a reminder, we had a staff-level meeting in Washington on Monday between US and Chinese officials. Both sides are trying to avoid further escalation on the matter but we haven't got any meaningful breakthrough yet, although the de-escalation remains the base case for the markets.