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China rare-earth export controls and U.S./EU supply-chain response

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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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