The Italian car industry has appealed to the government with a letter to Premier Giorgia Meloni and the competent ministers to avoid the blockade of the factories through Chinese tight rare earth.
The crisis exploded last April when Beijing imposed Examination -restrictions of seven elements of medium and rare countries in response to Tasks imposed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, On Chinese products. The new rules force Chinese companies to obtain special licenses for each export, creating a bureaucratic bottleneck that has already been paralyzed Different European plants. In fact, the Ford has already stopped in the United States and suspended the production of Suzuki in Japan.
Anfia, the association that represents the entire Italian car chain, has tackled this urgent attraction to activate the diplomatic network with Beijing via the Italian embassy in China and government contacts focused with the Chinese Ministry of Trade, since the China checks 90% of the world market of these critical elements for electric motors, sensors and car components.
The Chinese licensed system
Represent rare countries The nerve point of Western technological dependence on China. These 17 metal elements – including neodimio, disposio, terbio and gadolinio – are present in More than a hundred components Automotive, from magnets of electric motors to the most advanced sensors. Beijing not only dominates the extraction, but especially the refinement of these materials, a technologically complex phase that requires know -how specialized and that China was fully nationalized in October.
This dependence is reflected in the Italian food system, which represents the real Achilles heel of national industry. Roberto Vavassori, President of the Amphy, He explained to Courier that companies retain limited shares “Usually sufficient for a month, a month and a half“Follow the model just-in-time That optimizes the costs but dramatically exposes to interruptions. Every delay in Chinese supplies therefore translates into immediate problems for the assembly lines, from Melfi’s Stellantis to the hundreds of components of the components spread over the peninsula. “For the time being, none of the Italian companies He had to stop production“, Vavassori specified,”But there have been many reports of delivery problems“.
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