Trump’s China Trip Leaves a Key Deal Unsettled: Texas Brief

The Trade Deal Texas Is Still Waiting For

President Donald Trump’s China trip featured a warning to the US over intervention in Taiwan, an agreement to buy Boeing jets and GE engines, discussion of AI guardrails and pledges to open up trade. What some Texas lawyers were hoping to see is a rare-earth deal.

Despite rolling back some restrictions, China has largely continued to limit exports of some of its prized raw materials used to produce smartphones, electric vehicles, wind turbines, and military weapons. In response, the Trump administration has pumped billions of dollars into rare-earth ...