{"id":72992,"date":"2025-10-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/?p=72992"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:46:48","slug":"article-brazil-in-the-global-race-for-rare-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/publicacoes\/artigos-ccbc-en\/article-brazil-in-the-global-race-for-rare-earths\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: Brazil in the global race for rare earths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p>By <strong>Marcelo Mendo and others, partners in the Mining Law practice at Cescon Barrieu<\/strong><\/p><p><\/p><p>About two months ago, when the U.S. government announced sanctions against Brazil \u2014 particularly the 50% tariffs on Brazilian products \u2014 a previously secondary discussion gained traction: President Donald Trump\u2019s possible interest in Brazil\u2019s rare earths. But why?<\/p><p>The so-called \u201crare earths\u201d are crucial in the global geopolitical context because they provide minerals such as cerium, lanthanum, and neodymium, among others. These materials are strategic, for example, for concrete actions related to the energy transition agenda, including the production of wind turbines, electric cars, batteries, and magnets, as well as for military uses and various types of electronic equipment.<\/p><p><em>*The full article can be accessed through this <a href=\"https:\/\/valor.globo.com\/opiniao\/coluna\/o-brasil-na-corrida-mundial-por-terras-raras.ghtml?utm_source=aplicativoValor&amp;utm_medium=aplicativo&amp;utm_campaign=compartilhar\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/valor.globo.com\/opiniao\/coluna\/o-brasil-na-corrida-mundial-por-terras-raras.ghtml?utm_source=aplicativoValor&amp;utm_medium=aplicativo&amp;utm_campaign=compartilhar\">link<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marcelo Mendo and others, partners in the Mining Law practice at Cescon Barrieu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":72988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[555,215,125,1032,229,1965,584,1627,209,227],"class_list":["post-72992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artigos-ccbc-en","tag-brazil-canada","tag-business","tag-canada-en","tag-canada-day-en","tag-ccbc-en","tag-ccbc-50-anos-en","tag-comex-en","tag-educacao-2-en","tag-innovation","tag-tecnologia-en"],"cp_meta_data":{"_encloseme":["1"],"_wpml_word_count":["{\"total\":182,\"to_translate\":{\"fr\":182,\"pt-br\":182}}"],"_wp_old_date":["2025-10-27"],"_et_pb_use_builder":["off"],"_et_pb_old_content":[""],"_et_gb_content_width":["1080"],"footnotes":[""],"_et_monarch_override":[""],"sb_djhf_disable":["0"],"_et_post_bg_color":["#ffffff"],"_et_post_bg_layout":["light"],"_et_pb_show_title":["on"],"_et_pb_post_hide_nav":["default"],"_et_pb_page_layout":["et_no_sidebar"],"_et_pb_side_nav":["off"],"_wpml_media_duplicate":["1"],"_wpml_media_featured":["1"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["53"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":["Reforma Tribut\u00e1ria"],"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":["Evento do Chapter MG reuniu empresas de minera\u00e7\u00e3o e do agroneg\u00f3cio para avaliar impactos nos neg\u00f3cios com o novo sistema em discuss\u00e3o no Congresso"],"_yoast_wpseo_linkdex":["56"],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["30"],"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":["5"],"_et_builder_dynamic_assets_loading_attr_threshold":["2"],"_wpml_location_migration_done":["1"],"_thumbnail_id":["72988"],"_edit_lock":["1761583609:55"],"_edit_last":["55"]},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72993,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72992\/revisions\/72993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccbc.org.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}