In a tit-for-tat retaliation for President Biden’s export controls on 24 types of chip manufacturing equipment, high bandwidth memory, and chip software tools, China banned certain rare earth mineral exports to the United States on Dec. 3, 2024. The ban includes critical rare earth elements such as germanium, gallium, antimony, and superhard materials, with a stricter review of graphite in the interest of national security. The potential impact on the computer & technology sector and the aerospace sector could be problematic.
