but will germans buy a jew. welcome to you this is asia i'm going to get jones in berlin good to have you with us. in a new twist to the u.s. china trade disputes china has called the u.s. an economic terrorist and signals it could stop exporting rare earth metals to the u.s. and that matters because rare earths are used in a wide range of consumer products from i phones to electric car motors as well as military jet engines satellites and lasers now rare earth are a group of 17 elements here are a few of them therion for one is used in catalytic converters and cars bastien site is used in nuclear industry. is used to make magnets and lanthanum is used in camera lenses and so forth now china supplies nearly 3 quarters of all the world's rare earth 120000 tonnes that is the big produces include australia