Home/American Shipper/WTO sides with U.S. on China’s rare-earth export restraints American Shipper WTO sides with U.S. on China’s rare-earth export restraints FreightWaves Staff · Thursday, March 27, 2014 Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn A World Trade Organization panel has sided with the U.S. in favor of its claims that China’s export restraints on rare earth metals, tungsten and molybdenum breach WTO rules. They are used in a variety of U.S-made products.