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

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

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 ...

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

Chinese action on the supply and demand sides of lithium is driving the price up, with the potential for it to be used like ...

U.S. officials said they confirmed that Beijing would continue to allow for the export of rare earth magnets, one of the provisions of a deal they brokered with the Chinese in June in London. The only ...

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

Decades of process innovation and industrial policy helped China corner the rare earths market while the US fell behind.

China's Ministry of State Security says it is cracking down on alleged smuggling of rare earths materials that it says ...

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.

Thanks to simmering trade tensions with the U.S., back in April, rare-earth magnets were placed on an export control list, forcing companies to apply for licenses to take these magnets out of China.