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The White House will rely on metals from overseas for US electric-vehicle production, sources told Reuters.
The plans will be a blow to US miners, who had hoped Biden would rely primarily on domestic metals.
The sources said that Biden s team planned to process, rather than mine, the minerals domestically.
President Joe Biden plans to rely on ally countries to supply the bulk of the metals needed to build electric vehicles and focus on processing them domestically into battery parts, part of a strategy designed to placate environmentalists, two administration officials with direct knowledge told Reuters.
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