The United States eyeing Rare Earths Minerals from Burundi ...
Jun 08, 2019· THE BIG PICTURE: China is the world''s first producer of the Rare earth minerals with its 120 000 metric tonnes annual production. But, due to trade war between Washington and Beijing, the latter has threatened to ban the export of its rare earth ores to the United States in retaliation to the US hiking of tariffs on Chinese goods imported into the US from China.