Posted on 12/03/2024 8:53:56 AM PST by EBH
BEIJING, Dec 3 (Reuters) - China has banned exports to the U.S. of some goods containing critical minerals while tightening exports on others, after U.S. curbs a day earlier on the Chinese chip industry. Following is background on export controls and other steps that analysts say Chinese authorities might take to safeguard China and its companies' interests.
DUAL-USE On Dec. 3 China banned exports to the U.S. of items related to gallium, germanium, antimony and superhard materials, the latest escalation of trade tensions between the countries ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking office.
China had already on Dec. 1 enforced new regulations on exports of so-called dual-use products that have both civilian and military applications.
That had seen it create a unified and simplified export control list while also requiring Chinese exporters of dual-use items to disclose details about end users. The move allows Beijing to better identify supply chain dependencies on China within the U.S. military-industrial complex. Critical minerals are among these items, as China dominates global mining and processing of rare earth materials.
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The USA has many rare earths itself. We mine rare earths in California - and ship them to China for processing.
Mining and processing them can be dirty.
No suburban Karen wants them in their county. Add in brain-dead leftist pols fear-mongering about environment, and activist tort lawyers - and THAT’S how entire industries have disappear from the USA.
This is what happens when you export all your manufacturing jobs, mineral production jobs, and national sovereignty to a belligerent nation... they have you by the proverbial “short hairs”
Oh - and did you know... China embeds trojan code in EVERY chip they manufacture (for both domestic and export).
bkmk
Biden administration placed more restrictions on the sale of high-bandwidth memory and chipmaking tools to China, so China answered.
ICBMs?
Also Afghanistan.
I buy cat litter from China. Is that included?
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