Why China curbing rare earth exports is a huge blow to the US

Getty Images Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel prior to being crushed into powder at Neo Material Technologies Inc.'s Magnequench Tianjin Co. factory in Tianjin, China, on Friday, June 11, 2010Getty Images

Neodymium is used to make the powerful magnets used in loudspeakers and computer hard drives

As the trade war between China and the US escalates, attention has been focused on the increasingly high levels of tit-for-tat tariffs the two…

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