石油美元，进化到以后稀有金属矿物支持美元货币？
查了一下包括50多个国家，主要是结合起来对付中国，以应对中国产品的低价倾销。包括的贵金属有稀土，钴，锂，黄金，钨，铀
The term "preferential trade zone for precious metals" refers to recent U.S.-led initiatives, like the proposed Agreement on Trade in Critical Minerals, aiming to create a bloc of allied nations for secure supply chains, especially for rare earths and other key minerals like cobalt and lithium, to counter China's dominance in processing. This zone would use tariffs and common standards to ensure access, create jobs, and prevent market flooding with subsidized minerals, potentially including gold, uranium, and tungsten under specific agreements.
Key Aspects of the Proposed Zone:
- Goal: Reduce reliance on China for critical minerals used in high-tech and defense industries.
- Mechanism: Establish reference prices as floors, maintained through adjustable tariffs for zone members, ensuring fair pricing.
- Participants: Involves over 50 countries, including Mexico, Japan, EU nations, India, Canada, South Korea, Australia, and Saudi Arabia.
- Focus Minerals: Rare earths, cobalt, nickel, graphite, lithium, and potentially gold and uranium.
- Benefits: Secure supply chains, encourage domestic production, create skilled jobs, and stabilize prices.
Related Initiatives:
- Minerals Security Partnership (MSP): A Biden-era initiative focused on collaborative funding for mineral projects, now potentially evolving under the new proposal.
- India's Advance Authorisation Scheme: An existing scheme allowing duty-free import of inputs for jewelry export, demonstrating existing preferential systems.
Why it Matters:
China controls significant processing capacity for many of these minerals, using it as geo-economic leverage. This new preferential zone aims to build an alternative, secure network for these vital resources.
China controls significant processing capacity for many of these minerals, using it as geo-economic leverage. This new preferential zone aims to build an alternative, secure network for these vital resources.
