The above news was not confirmed by the Ministry of Commerce. However, Zhao Yumin, director of the International Marketing Department of the Ministry of Commerce, told the Southern Reporter that they also noticed the above information. This is a serious matter that needs to be handled with care, but the official has not yet made a formal response. If this ruling is final, the Chinese government will only abide by the WTO decision and relax policies, such as lowering tariffs.
WTO will sentence China's raw material export restrictions to violations
The Wall Street Journal reported that the WTO is preparing to issue a ruling that ruled that China has no right to impose export restrictions on nine raw materials, including zinc and coke. Rejecting what the Chinese government calls a need to limit exports for environmental protection.
The lawsuit dates back to 2009. The United States, the European Union, and Mexico point out that China is the world's largest producer of cadmium, gold, indium, iron ore, lime, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, phosphorus, tin, tungsten, and zinc. While China continues to cut exports of these minerals, they filed lawsuits against the WTO on China's policy of restricting the export of nine of these raw materials and continued to exert pressure.
The US steel industry lobbying group sent a letter to the US Trade Representative Office this year, accusing China of reducing the export quota for bauxite again, from 930,000 tons in 2010 to 830,000 tons in 2011. And pointed out that China's exports of phosphorus have dropped from 102,346 tons in 2005 to 39,465 tons in 2010. Phosphorus can be used to make matches, herbicides and other chemicals.
After the complaints were filed by three trading partners, China cited Article 20 of the WTO. This provision allows 153 members of the WTO to restrict exports for reasons such as environmental protection. According to the Wall Street Journal, the WTO rejected this claim.
Liu Xueqin, director of the China Foreign Trade Research Office of the Ministry of Commerce, said, "She just got the news, but the specific situation did not have time to learn more."
However, under the WTO framework, China can now appeal the ruling on raw materials. If this is not done or the appeal fails, China must cancel the export restrictions or face retaliatory trade sanctions from the three complainants.
In response, EU Trade Commissioner Degut recently delivered a speech at a raw materials forum in Brussels, saying that the raw materials case will greatly enhance the EU's favorable position in filing complaints on rare earth issues. Rare earth mines, which are critical for many industrial applications, have become a particular problem. China accounts for about 30% of the world's rare earth supply, but it accounts for more than 90% of the world's rare earth exports.
Dealing with rulings may reduce tariffs
For the above news, the Ministry of Commerce did not confirm it until the time of publication.
"With regard to this ruling, there is no official official response yet. Many details have not yet been made public. I can only talk about my views." Zhao Yumin, director of the International Marketing Department of the Ministry of Commerce, told the Southern Reporter.
She said that the WTO ruling now has legal effect. If China does not comply, the WTO will cancel some commitments made to China, such as the elimination of tariff barriers. Other member states may use this to conduct some trade retaliation, which will cause damage to some of China's export trade. Of course, in what aspects of China’s trade have been affected, it is necessary to understand the types of raw materials involved in the WTO decision and to analyze it in detail.
A rice cooker or rice steamer is an automated kitchen appliance designed to boil or steam rice. It consists of a heat source, a cooking bowl, and a thermostat. The thermostat measures the temperature of the cooking bowl and controls the heat. Complex rice cookers may have many more sensors and other components, and may be multipurpose. Cooking rice has traditionally required constant attention to ensure the rice was cooked properly, and not burnt. Electric rice cookers automate the process by mechanically or electronically controlling heat and timing, thus freeing up a heating element on the cooking range that had to be otherwise occupied for rice cooking. Although the rice cooker does not necessarily speed up the cooking process, with an electric rice cooker the cook's involvement in cooking rice is reduced to simply measuring the rice, preparing the rice properly and using the correct amount of water. Once the rice cooker is set to cook, the rice will be cooked with no further attention.
Features:
For modern home rice cookers, the smallest single-person model cooks 1 rice cup (180 ml), whereas large models can cook 10 cups. Commercial models can cook 20 or more cups. As a possible source of confusion, model specifications and names may list either cooked or uncooked capacity. Rice roughly doubles in size during cooking; therefore, a 10 cup (uncooked) rice cooker can produce up to 20 cups of cooked rice. The prices vary greatly, depending on the capacity, features, materials used, and the country of origin.
The majority of modern electric rice cookers are equipped with a stay-warm or keep-warm feature, which keeps the rice at an optimal temperature for serving without over-cooking it. Some gas cookers also have electric stay-warm mechanism. However, the usefulness of this feature degrades over time, a microwave may be more energy efficient or better suited to reheat rice that will sit longer than four hours.
Some rice cookers use induction heating, with one or more induction heaters directly warming the pot. This can improve energy efficiency.
Most modern rice cookers use aluminium for the inner cooking bowl. There are some models that use stainless steel instead of aluminium. Various other materials, such as copper, pure carbon, ceramic, and diamond powder coating, may be used for higher heat conductivity or better taste.
The pressure-cooking models can raise the water's boiling point higher, e.g., from 100 °C at 1.0 atm up to about 110 °C at 1.4 atm, which speeds cooking. The pressure-cooking models can also be used in high altitude areas, where the boiling temperature is below 100 Celsius. Pressure cookers are also suitable for cooking brown rice (which contains oils and bran fiber that cook differently from pure white rice starch). Some pressure rice cookers have a varying pressure control mechanism (named the "dual-pressure" method) that creates repeated pressure/release cycles during the cooking.
There also exist mechanisms to collect and return the boiled over liquid to the inner rice bowl.
Many cookers now have microprocessor-controlled cooking cycles, which are often used to adjust for rice and cooking type.
Applications
Rice cookers are typically used for the preparation of plain or lightly seasoned rice. Each rice cooker model may be optimized to cook a certain type of rice best. For example, most Japanese rice cookers are optimized for cooking Japanese rice and may not be the best for other types of rice[citation needed], although cooking time can be lengthened simply by more water.
The typical method of cooking long grain rice is boil-and-strain and/or steaming method. The absorption method used in Japanese rice cookers will produce slightly different texture and taste, usually stickier rice.
Brown rice generally needs longer cooking times than white rice, unless it is broken or flourblasted (which perforates the bran).
Different varieties of rice need different cooking times, depending on their grain size, grain shape, and grain composition. There are three main types of Asian rice: Oryza sativa subsp. indica, i.e., Indian rice (long grain rice, e.g., basmati rice and Thai jasmine rice), O. sativa subsp. javanica, i.e., Java rice (large grain rice) and O. sativa subsp. japonica, i.e., Japanese rice (medium grain rice, e.g., Calrose rice, short grain rice, e.g., most Japanese rice and risotto rice).
African rice, Oryza glaberrima, is an entirely separate species, but can be cooked in the same way. Zizania is not even in the same genus, although it is often called a rice (or "water oats"); it, too, can also be cooked in a rice cooker.
A rice cooker can be used to cook many boiled or steamed granular foods, such as pot barley, bulgar wheat, and dal. Provided the ingredients have similar cooking times, a rice cooker can cook mixtures such as khichdi. Some rice cookers can be used as automated couscoussiers, cooking couscous and a stew simultaneously.
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