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China threatens retaliation as EU industrial rules reach critical raw materials
Key takeaways
- The main pressure point is no longer only the suspended October 2025 wave. The April 2025 licensing architecture still shapes market access, trade flows, and planning.
- The EU is moving from dependence warnings to execution through supplier matching and industrial-policy tools, but those same tools are now drawing explicit retaliation threats from China.
- Brazilian coverage around Serra Verde shows diversification depends not only on new mines and processing capacity, but also on political and legal acceptance in alternative producer countries.
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