The Zhitong Finance App learned that according to media reports quoting people familiar with the matter, US President Trump's team is drafting an executive order to allow the US to “hoard” large amounts of metal resources from the Pacific Ocean seabed and be added to existing federal crude oil and metals strategic reserves to “counter” China's dominant position in the battery metal and rare earth supply chain. Affected by this news, before the US stock market on Monday, as of press release, Canadian deep-sea mining company TMC the Metals (TMC.US) rose more than 20%, while US rare earth materials producer MP Materials (MP.US) rose nearly 11%.

Zhitongcaijing · 04/14 12:57
The Zhitong Finance App learned that according to media reports quoting people familiar with the matter, US President Trump's team is drafting an executive order to allow the US to “hoard” large amounts of metal resources from the Pacific Ocean seabed and be added to existing federal crude oil and metals strategic reserves to “counter” China's dominant position in the battery metal and rare earth supply chain. Affected by this news, before the US stock market on Monday, as of press release, Canadian deep-sea mining company TMC the Metals (TMC.US) rose more than 20%, while US rare earth materials producer MP Materials (MP.US) rose nearly 11%.