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China foolishly threatens rare earth elements ban
2019-05-21
[American Thinker] Chinese threats to ban exports of "rare earth elements" critical to high-tech American products will foolishly boomerang by forcing the U.S. to ramp up mining and processing.

Bloomberg reported that China’s President Xi Jinping visited the JL MAG Rare-Earth Company mine to fuel "speculation that the strategic materials could be weaponized in China’s tit-for-tat with the U.S. on trade."

Rare earth elements are crucial to high-tech devices because of their unique magnetic and lighting properties, such as neodymium used in the commercial-scale wind farm magnets to maximize the efficiency of electric generators to produce current. Newer applications include hybrid electric cars, iPhones and military hardware such as night-vision goggles and guided weapons.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  Nike?

The people using Colon Caper Dick in their ads?

Fuck 'em.
Posted by: charger   2019-05-21 16:22  

#11  but in 12 years they're economy will be larger than the US. Or so I've heard for something like 20 years.
Posted by: rschwarz   2019-05-21 16:17  

#10  Only the upper end New Balance. The bottom lines are not.
Posted by: 3dc   2019-05-21 15:47  

#9  Skechers and Dr. Marten are American-made.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-05-21 11:47  

#8  Thanks for the shoe rec.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-05-21 09:14  

#7  See yesterday's Rare Earth
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-05-21 08:46  

#6  Yes, thanks Frank. I have a pair of 990's. A very good product.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-21 08:31  

#5  New Balance is American Made
Posted by: Frank G   2019-05-21 08:30  

#4  And this is just to jobs lost at Brown shoe manufacturing in Illinois, over a period of 50-60 years:

Lost Illinois Manufacturing
March 25, 2016 ·
A special thank you to Sally Smith (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php…) and Ken Smith for this photo of the old Brown Shoe factory in Salem, Illinois. In 1962 the Brown Shoe Company had seven factories in Illinois employing over 3,200 people.
Charleston (450 employees)
Litchfield (400 employees),
Mattoon (508 employees)
Murphysboro (650 employees)
Pittsfield (475 employees)
Salem (450 employees),
Sullivan (425 employees).

(Not listed, Brown Shoe factory in Olney, number of employees unknown)

fb Link found here.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-21 07:45  

#3  I wondered when they would pull this card. China does produce the bulk of the world's supply, but only because it is willing to pollute the shit out of itself. Producing rare earth (which really aren't that rare, just low concentrations) requires you to dig up huge swaths of dirt and run it through a nasty chemical cocktail to refine the metals out. The end result is a polluted torn up landscape.

With other western (and Japan) countries needing to produce their own, the process would get cleaner as their populations would demand it. But it will take time to bring those industries up to speed and the cost of electronics would go up significantly if China did stop trade.

There is your Rantburg info on the subject for the day.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-05-21 07:42  

#2  Now the foreign shoe import people are raising hell with POTUS over the China tariffs.

Dozens of shoe retailers, including Nike and Adidas, sign letter to Trump urging a halt to tariffs

I believe "Allen Edmonds' up in Port Washington, WI may be the last American made men's shoe.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-21 07:35  

#1  Let's just end this crap once and for all. Pull every scrap of manufacturing out of Communist China, place a 300% tariff on all goods made in Communist China, kick them out of the WTO and tell ALL of our other trading partners that they either do the same or they don't trade with us.
Posted by: Snomonter Whose7528   2019-05-21 07:15  

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