Updated 2:00 pm ET, Tuesday, March 13
Speaking from the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday, President Obama announced that the U.S. had filed a trade complaint against China over its exportation of rare earth materials — a group of 17 elements of which China owns 97 percent of the world’s production. The rare earths are used by the rest of the globe to make everything from consumer electronics to hybrid car batteries to high-tech weapons.
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