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Rare earths export controls: Why Germany can breathe easy for the moment

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Published: April 6th, 2025,
Last updated: April 12th, 2025

By Jost Wübbeke

Trump’s tariff war against the world this week has sealed nothing less than the end of globalization. China is not only hit by 34 percent additional tariffs on all exports to the USA. Rather, American isolationism is also undermining the global economic order in which China has risen to become a trading power since 2001.

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Geopolitics USA Duties Trade war