The effects of CaO, Al2O3 and MgO, all as the foreign oxide, on the rate limiting step of the reduction of pellets from wustite to metallic iron and on the values of rate parameters are studied.It is confirmed that the reduction behavior of those pellets may be represented either by the unreacted core model or by the uniform reaction model, depending on which kinds of the foreign oxide and the iron oxide are present at the start. The mixed rate control equation of mass transfer in the gas phase, intraparticle gas diffusion, and chemical reaction may be applied to any iron oxides that contain CaO and to hematite and magnetite both containing Al2O3. On the other hand, the reduction rates of the pure iron oxides, wustite containing Al2O3 and any iron oxides containing MgO are controlled by the oxygen diffusion in the metallic iron shell.These results agree with the conclusion of the present authors' previous studies, namely, when a complex oxide that consists of an iron oxide and any one of those foreign oxides precipitates in wustite during reduction, wustite grains are reduced nontopochemically while pellets are reduced topochemically.