Washington targets critical minerals trade, prices | Hotter Commodities

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01/19

The US has just taken a decisive step toward turning critical minerals from a supply-chain concern into a full-blown trade and pricing issue. On Wednesday January 14, US President Donald Trump signed ...

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Washington is signaling a willingness to intervene directly in how critical minerals are priced and traded into the US.\nPrice floors\nThe proclamation explicitly instructs negotiators to consider price floors for trade in critical minerals.\nThis is key — Section 232 actions have historically focused on volumes or tariffs. Price floors go further, directly influencing market pricing and potentially redefining what ‘fair value’ means for strategically important minerals.\nFor thinly traded or opaque markets — rare earths, gallium, germanium, indium and other battery materials — a US-mandated minimum price could ripple through contract formulas, arbitrage flows and benchmark relevance.\nIn short, Washington is signaling that if import prices are so low that they undermine domestic processing and production capacity, they pose a national security risk.\nThe administration is following a familiar Section 232 playbook: negotiations first, unilateral action later. Trading partners have up to 180 days to secure agreements that address US concerns over supply security, price volatility and foreign dominance of processing capacity.\nIf those talks fail — or produce outcomes Washington deems insufficient — the proclamation makes clear that import adjustments will follow. Tariffs, minimum prices or other restrictions remain very much on the table.\nFor exporters, particularly those outside allied jurisdictions, this creates immediate policy risk. For US buyers, it introduces uncertainty over costs, contract structures and long-term supply strategies.\nProcessing, volatility\nThe Commerce Department report cuts to the real bottleneck: the US lacks domestic processing capacity.\nThe US is 100% import-reliant for 12 critical minerals and at least 50% reliant for another 29. Even where domestic mining exists, downstream capacity does not.\nRare earths are the clearest example: the US is the world’s second-largest producer of mined rare earth oxides yet still has to export material for refining and then reimport finished products.\nFrom Washington’s perspective, this makes cheap imports a liability, not a benefit. If low prices hollow out domestic processing capacity, they become a strategic vulnerability — and one the administration now appears willing to correct through trade policy.\nCommerce also points the finger at price volatility, arguing that it has discouraged investment, driven facility closures and pushed US producers offshore.\nThis is a notable shift in tone: volatile prices are no longer just a market feature, but a justification for intervention, with the government positioning itself as the stabilizer of last resort.\nAccess\nFor producers, processors and traders, the takeaway is simple: access to the US market is becoming conditional.\nCost and quality alone may no longer guarantee entry; alignment with US supply chain strategy may matter just as much.\nAllied producers could benefit, while others may see cheap imports lose their edge.\nTraders and consumers, meanwhile, face a future where contract formulas and arbitrage routes could all be affected if price floors are imposed.\nThe Commerce Department will continue monitoring imports and can recommend further action at any time. That means Section 232 is no longer a one-off event; it’s now a standing pressure point over critical minerals.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"}}}