The market prospect and industry management of metal catalytic converters in the automotive industry was analyzed. For the automotive metal catalytic converter samples, a determination method for precious metal Pt, Pd and Rh using ICP-MS was established. After soaked in 6 mol/L HCl solution, the sample turned into filtrate and insoluble, and then they were prepared into test solutions separately after tellurium co-precipitation. The method was co-verified by eight laboratories, and the results are as following: for Pt, Pd and Rh, the relative deviations between the determination results and the corresponding reference values are all less than 10%, and the reproducibility uncertainties are 6.6%, 6.5% and 5.8%, respectively. It is concluded that the method has low detection limits, high recoveries, good reproducibility and satisfactory feasibility