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Tariffs Are Fueling the Search for Rare-Earth Minerals
China mines some 70% of the world’s rare earths, the 17 metallic elements primarily used in magnets needed for civilian and ...
After the U.S. and China pause tariffs, rare mineral exports are now in the spotlight for future trade deals
China both wants to use its dominance of rare mineral mining as leverage, while at the same time proving to U.S. companies it ...
A geopolitical conflict over minerals may finally be a real threat
Scarce minerals have, as it were, cried wolf many times. Policymakers worry about bottlenecks — the EU is currently on its ...
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Tariffs Are Fueling the Search for Rare-Earth Minerals
Canada's Aclara Resources aims to extract and process rare earths from its plants in Brazil and Chile. (Tommaso Protti for WSJ) China mines some 70% of the world’s rare earths, the 17 metallic ...
China’s rare earth exports surged ahead of Trump trade war escalation
Chinese critical mineral exports rose sharply ahead of “Liberation Day” tariffs, analysts warn overseas dependence could last ...
China isn’t getting rid of its controls over rare earths, despite trade truce with US
Despite a 90-day truce in its trade war with the United States, China appears to be maintaining tight control over its rare earth exports – preserving a key source of leverage in future negotiations ...
A new cold war is brewing over rare earth minerals
China has implemented new export controls for rare earth minerals and magnets. The changes could upend the shift to electric ...
How China's slow approval of rare earths is threatening supply chains
China’s sluggish approval of rare earth exports is threatening to disrupt global supply chains, the Financial Times reported, ...
Global supply chains threatened by lack of Chinese rare earths
Licensing delays under new regime put at risk shipments of materials crucial for products from EVs to fighter jets ...
China retains rare earth export controls as bargaining chip amid trade war truce with US
SHENZHEN: Even as China and the US roll back tariffs and other trade salvos amid a 90-day truce, there is one powerful source ...
Rare-earths plants are popping up outside China
GOIÂNIA, Brazil—In a warehouse deep in Brazil’s savanna, machines churn through piles of red clay to produce chalky rocks ...