Threat of Limited U.S. Access to Critical Raw Materials

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Critical Materials Are In High Demand. What is DOD Doing to ...

According to DOD officials, the U.S. has more rigorous environmental regulations than China. This allows China to mine and process rare earths ...

The U.S. Military and NATO Face Serious Risks of Mineral Shortages

NATO militaries could face shortages of critical minerals, especially if U.S.-China tensions escalate. Stockpiling could prepare NATO for a ...

Supply of critical raw materials risks jeopardising the green transition

Developing Domestic Production Capacity for the Battery Supply ...

Access to critical minerals supply chains will be crucial to the clean energy transition in the United States.

FACT SHEET: Securing a Made in America Supply Chain for Critical ...

In June, the Biden-Harris Administration released a first-of-its-kind supply chain assessment that found our over-reliance on foreign sources ...

Critical Materials: Action Needed to Implement Requirements That ...

DOD uses large quantities of rare earths and other critical materials in its weapon systems but has limited influence on the markets for these ...

2023 Critical Materials Assessment - Department of Energy

Union considers non-energy raw materials for economic importance and supply risk for the 2016–2020 period. (Grohol and Veeh, 2023). While ...

Securing Defense-Critical Supply Chains

raw materials and chemical shortages to critical subcomponents produced by fragile suppliers For ... ments to equipment and processes Limited ...

A Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of ...

and Mitigate Supply Risks for Critical Raw Materials,” September 2016, https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-699. 35. Environmental Protection Agency, “U.S. ...

National Policy and Critical Minerals List - CRS Reports

pdf (hereinafter, White House, Building Resilient Supply Chains,. 2021); U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Critical Materials Assessment, July ...

Grand challenges in anticipating and responding to critical materials ...

Critical materials are resources that are vulnerable to supply disruptions, where those disruptions can have significant adverse impacts on ...

Critical Materials: Present Danger to U.S. Manufacturing - RAND

exporter of the raw materials in question, and access to these materials is critical for ... preferential access if supply were limited.

Critical Materials Rare Earths Supply Chain: A Situational White Paper

supply chains and U.S. companies and material users at risk. Many foreign ... accessing and developing critical minerals through investment and trade with ...

De-risking Critical Mineral Supply Chains: The Role of Latin America

The United States will face challenges to promoting greater exploration and mining investment within the hemisphere so long as it is perceived ...

Geopolitics of the Energy Transition: Critical Materials - IRENA

Large mining quantities · Low mining quantities · Generate huge rents · Generate smaller profits · Combusted as fuel · Input to manufacturing · Energy security risk.

Time for Resilient Critical Material Supply Chain Policies - RAND

Rare earth elements (REEs) have been the lone exception: China threat- ened to restrict access to Chinese exports in order to manipulate. U.S. ...

Critical Minerals and U.S. Public Policy - CRS Reports

But some raw materials do not exist in economic quantities in the United States, and processing, manufacturing, and other downstream ventures in ...

Critical Raw Materials: Regulatory Initiatives - HFW

Most of all, governments are keen to avoid falling into the same dependency trap as happened with oil and gas in the 20th and first two decades ...

Building Larger and More Diverse Supply Chains for Energy Minerals

Such concentrated supply chains are vulnerable to physical, economic, or political disruption. Of particular concern to U.S. policymakers, China ...