Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that the DOC’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) had withdrawn their interim final rule (IFR) on “Revisions to the Export Administration Regulations: Rare Earth Minerals and Strategic Metals”. The IFR was sent to OIRA on July 10th, 2025.
According to the Spring 2025 Unified Agenda Entry for this rulemaking:
“This rule makes revisions to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) for certain rare earth minerals and strategic metals.”
That description of the purpose of the rulemaking is way
short on details, but I would assume that it was part and parcel of the Administration’s
on-again, off-again disagreement with the Chinese about trade in rare earth
materials. This follows a
November BIS suspension of an entities list IFR that impacted Chinese trade.
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