Two Texas Republican lawmakers are expressing concerns that critical minerals tainted by forced labor in China could be imported into the United States.
Rep. Michael McCaul, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. August Pfluger, ranking member of the Homeland Security subcommittee on intelligence and counterterrorism, outlined their concerns in a Sept. 29 letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus. Their letter was first reported by Breitbart News.
“America imports a large quantity of critical minerals from China, which has a stranglehold over the global trade, especially of processed critical minerals and rare earths and leaves America reliant on Chinese exports,” the two lawmakers wrote….