MARK A. SMITH: President Lula’s Niobium Sword Of Damocles

1 sourceUpdated Jul 1, 2026

Before President Trump, America spent years wringing our collective hands about China and rare earths. Now, with President Trump’s turbocharging of the Defense Production Act and other tools in the federal toolbox, we…

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