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Steve Pearce: “The flags are still in the ground, and the jobs are gone. And, by the way, the Chinese started charging 35 percent…”

On the recordJuly 19, 2017
The flags are still in the ground, and the jobs are gone. And, by the way, the Chinese started charging 35 percent excise tax on the rare earth minerals, because they want to put our manufacturers out of business.
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Steve Pearce
New Mexico

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Pearce discusses the impact of Chinese taxes on U.S. rare earth mineral jobs.

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