Thanks to Paul Kedrosky for highlighting Ambrose Evans-Pritchard’s article about China’s plans to limit exports of rare earth minerals.
Specifically, there’s discussion of limiting exports of terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, lutetium, neodymium, europium, cerium, and lanthanum. We took a look at who’s sending shipments to the United States that include these rare earth minerals. Results below:
- 3 suppliers of products including terbium
- 5 suppliers of products including dysprosium
- 54 suppliers of products including yttrium
- 1 supplier of products including thulium
- 8 suppliers of products including lutetium
- 41 suppliers of products including neodymium
- 12 suppliers of products including europium
- 85 suppliers of products including cerium
- 121 suppliers of products including lanthanum
If you dig into the searches, you can see the geographic distribution of these suppliers. Some are the original suppliers; others are middlemen.
