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Without rare earth magnets — especially lightweight and heat-tolerant neodymium iron boron magnets — nearly every technology the United States depends on would be inoperable.

CEO Jim Farley made the comment in an interview with Bloomberg News. China controls more than 90% of global rare earth processing capacity.

Rare earth elements are used to produce magnets with very high strength that also strongly resist demagnetization, their performance is key to modern motors such as those in electric vehicles (EVs).