How China’s new rare-earth export controls target the Pentagon—and the world The licensing system replaces a cruder, less flexible means of economic leverage.

China mines around 70% and processes around 90% of rare earths. The U.S. is hoping to change that with investment in the ...

However, this “trump card” did not come into China’s possession overnight. Behind its global dominance in rare earth exports ...

China has quietly issued its first 2025 rare earth mining and smelting quotas without the typical public statement, sources ...

The U.S. and China, two of the world’s largest economies, broke new territory in trade negotiations over rare earth elements.

China has released its first set of rare earth mining quotas for 2025 quietly, marking a move to tighten state control over ...

Beijing curbed rare earth and magnet exports in April in retaliation against U.S. tariffs, driving down magnet makers' offshore sales at the same time as they face pressure from a weak economy and ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China has signalled for more than 15 years that it was looking to weaponise areas of the global supply chain, a strategy modelled on longstanding American export controls ...

Following talks with the US thought to include reductions in critical mineral export restrictions, China reports 60 per cent jump in June shipments.

The U.S. found out this year that China could use its chokehold on rare-earth minerals as a coercive tool. For Japan, it was ...

Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China October 31, 2010. Picture taken October 31, 2010.