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Although China still produces the bulk of the global supply of rare earths, its share dropped from the near monopoly it historically held to about 70% in 2014, according to a new report. Released by the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank, the report says China’s brief trade embargo of rare-earth materials to Japan in 2010 destabilized the global market and might have inadvertently diminished China’s hold over these resources. In 2010, China produced some 97% of the world’s rare earths, which are used heavily in the manufacture of electronics. The decline in part comes from the expansion of rare-earth mining, production facilities, and reprocessing technology outside China, says report author Eugene Gholz, a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.
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