April 9, 2007


Market Vectors ETF Trust
99 Park Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, New York  10016


Re:   Opinion of Counsel regarding Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to the
      Registration Statement filed on Form N-1A under the Securities Act of 1933
      (File Nos. 333-123257; 811-10325)


Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:


We have acted as counsel to Market Vectors ETF Trust (the "Fund"), in connection
with the above-referenced Registration Statement (as amended, the "Registration
Statement"), which relates to the shares of beneficial interest of the Market
Vectors--Global Alternative Energy ETF and Market Vectors--Russia ETF, no par
value (collectively, the "Shares"). This opinion is being delivered to you in
connection with the Fund's filing of Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to the
Registration Statement (the "Amendment") to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 485(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "1933 Act"), and Amendment No. 9 pursuant to the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended, in connection with the effectiveness of the Market
Vectors-- Global Alternative Energy ETF and Market Vectors--Russia ETF. With
your permission, all assumptions and statements of reliance herein have been
made without any independent investigation or verification on our part except to
the extent otherwise expressly stated, and we express no opinion with respect to
the subject matter or accuracy of such assumptions or items relied upon. We have
reviewed the Fund's Declaration of Trust, as amended, and such other documents
and matters as we have deemed necessary to enable us to render this opinion.

Based upon, and subject to, the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares
proposed to be sold pursuant to the Amendment, when effective, will have been
duly authorized and, when sold in accordance with the terms of the Amendment and
the requirements of applicable federal and state law and delivered by the Fund
against receipt of the net asset value of the Shares, will have been legally
issued, fully paid and non-assessable by the Fund (except for the potential
liability of shareholders described in the Fund's current Statement of
Additional Information under the caption "Capital Stock and Shareholder
Reports").

We are attorneys licensed to practice only in the State of New York. The
foregoing opinion is limited to the Federal laws of the United States and the
Delaware Statutory Trust Act, and we are expressing no opinion as to the effect
of the laws of any other jurisdiction.

We have consented to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement and to the reference to us under the headings "General
Information" in the Prospectus and "Counsel and Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm" in the Statement of Additional Information, each



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forming a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not
concede that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under
Section 7 of the 1933 Act.

                                               Very truly yours,

                                               /s/ Clifford Chance US LLP