with 20000 tonnes and the us used to be a major producers but now turns out just 15000 tonnes so are rare earth supplies going to be the bargaining chip in the us china trade war our correspondent andrea hang joins us now in singapore and in cyprus we welcome jameel global head of currency strategy and market research at f.x. t m good to have you both on the show andrea i would like to start with you because this threat of stopping a supplies of rare earth that isn't the only thing the united states needs to worry about right now. no it isn't a plug in china supply is the least of his problems because the americans us severely legging behind now the u.s. relies on china for 80 percent of its red requirements and with that supply being disrupted there's also another problem off processing china has processing