{"id":139203,"date":"2025-04-23T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/critical-raw-materials-set-to-be-a-key-lever-in-global-trade-war\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:10:14","slug":"critical-raw-materials-set-to-be-a-key-lever-in-global-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/critical-raw-materials-set-to-be-a-key-lever-in-global-trade-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical raw materials set to be a key lever in global trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139203\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>As global trade tensions intensify, the increasing demand for elements from the lesser known corners of the periodic table is making them an increasingly important piece on the new geopolitical chess board.<\/p>\n<p>America has been consuming more than it produces for decades now, so Washington may appear on the surface to hold the stronger cards in a tariff war with China. But decades of deindustrialisation have left the US dependent on trading partners for everything from cars and electronic gadgets to toys and cheap garments. Nowhere is that dependency more acute than in the case of critical raw materials \u2013 a problem shared by the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Just two after the US president declared Liberation Day and presented his list of \u2018reciprocal\u2019 trade tariffs in the rose garden of the White House, Beijing quietly imposed export controls on seven rare earth metals. Readers may not be familiar with samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium, but if you are reading this on a phone, you\u2019re holding several of them in your hand.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a ban, but exporters will have to apply for a licence for shipments of these metals and related products, allowing Beijing \u2013 which subsequently hit a dozen mainly military firms with a ban on the export of \u2018dual-use\u2019 goods, and put another six on an \u2018unreliable entities\u2019 list \u2013 to effectively control what goes where.<\/p>\n<p>Such heavy rare earth metals are just one of 34 items listed in the Critical Raw Materials Act adopted by the EU last year. Along with minerals like lithium and cobalt, they are essential for electric cars and other clean energy applications, as well as digital and weapons technology. It\u2019s no coincidence that from the get-go almost all such essential minerals were on the long list of materials exempted from Trump\u2019s scattergun tariff regime.<\/p>\n<p>The EU gets all of its heavy rare earths from China and, like the US, is ramping up efforts to secure alternative supply lines of these and other essential minerals. So far it has relied on a diplomatic offensive rather than the strong-arm tactics used by Washington in the cases of Ukraine, Greenland \u2013 and even a Canada that Trump has insisted should become the 51st state. The scramble for raw materials is not only about trade relations; it also raises moral questions over striking deals with unsavoury regimes, and what to do when mineral-rich regions are blighted by armed conflict \u2013 as they perhaps inevitably are.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/04\/23\/critical-raw-materials-set-to-be-a-key-lever-in-global-trade-war\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/critical-raw-materials-set-to-be-a-key-lever-in-global-trade-war\/\">Critical raw materials set to be a key lever in global trade war<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[9223,757,573,606,607,608,589],"class_list":["post-139203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-critical-raw-materials","tag-global","tag-trade","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}