Trump Must End Dodd-Frank’s Backdoor Tariffs Blocking Critical Minerals & Impoverishing Congo
Amid controversies over tariffs and their effects, one particularly destructive barrier to trade has gone overlooked: restrictions on “conflict minerals” that exacerbate poverty in the developing world, undermine U.S. access to rare earth metals and critical minerals, and hand a competitive edge to China in control of the global supply of these critical minerals. Ironically,…