As cash continues to flood out of China, expectations are growing that the authorities will erect higher barriers. SEE MORE Buying interest for spot styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) cargoes in the key China market has started to wane in line with the overall slowdown in trading activity ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, market sources said on Thursday. SEE MORE As outlined above, the FAO is projecting demand for phosphate fertilizer consumption to continue growing in the coming years. In particular, out of the 3.9 million tons of phosphate demand that is expected from now until 2018, 58 percent of it is from Asia. SEE MORE Certainly, a Chinese embargo on rare earths isn’t an impossible scenario. In 2010, China cut off rare earth exports to Japan following an incident between the Japanese Coast Guard and a Chinese fishing boat. That issue was resolved fairly quickly, but the US and other countries are still largely dependent on China for rare earths. SEE MORE Magnesium, a key industrial metal, can be recovered from a range of different host materials, with magnesite being just one key source of magnesium compounds. SEE MORE