The Trump administration wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its allies that will use tariffs to maintain price floors and defend against China's tactic of flooding the market to und

The US is impatient for a plan to break China’s stranglehold on the supply of critical minerals. This week may mark the beginning of a breakthrough.

The Trump administration called on more than 50 countries to join a new trading bloc to counter China’s control of mining and processing.

Washington’s 2026 Ministerial marks a shift from market pricing to state control of critical minerals via security, finance, and diplomacy. Rising demand and high prices turn once-marginal mineral assets into strategic tools—what was geology is now geopolitics.

Foreign skepticism about U.S. reliability under Trump could undermine the success of the State Department’s inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial meeting this week.

The White House announced “Project Vault” as officials from at least 40 countries head to Washington to discuss a minerals market to counter Beijing.

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