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President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States will get magnets and rare earth minerals from China under a new trade deal and that tariffs on Chinese goods will go to 55%.

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It can be titanium, uranium, many others,” Mr Yermak said. “It’s a lot.” China, Mr Trump’s chief geopolitical adversary, is the world’s largest producer of rare earth elements.