Rare Earths
Total 17 Posts
U.S. Agency Releases New Draft List of Critical Minerals Including REEs
The U.S. Geological Survey at the Department of the Interior (DOI) issued the
2021 Draft List of Critical Minerals
[https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/09/2021-24488/2021-draft-list-of-critical-minerals]
today. The list is designed to address the concern that the United States is
heavily dependent on imports of certain
Commerce Department Initiates Section 232 Investigation on Neodymium Magnets
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced on
Friday that it has initiated an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade
Expansion Act of 1962 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1862] "to
determine the effects on U.S. national security from imports
China Proposes Rules to Regulate Rare Earth Production
On January 15, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the Draft Rare Earth Management Provisions (公开征求对《稀土管理条例（征求意见稿）》的意见) and solicited public comments, which are due by February 15. This draft comes after Chinese President Xi Jinping visited a rare earth factory in May of 2019,
