Input Stories

The NAM released its strategy today for a comprehensive, modern critical minerals policy that will secure access to key inputs for the manufacturing industry and the nation.

A message to policymakers: To advance this agenda, the NAM shared with the United States Trade Representative the international policies in the strategy—a framework to rebalance global critical minerals supply chains with plurilateral partners.
  
The details: The NAM’s two-pronged policy framework offers specific, complementary domestic and international policy recommendations to the Trump administration and Congress.

• Domestic actions: The NAM calls for comprehensive permitting reform and to make strategic energy incentives permanent.
• International actions: The NAM urges the administration to negotiate plurilateral agreements that rebalance the global market for critical minerals.

The NAM says: “The stakes are clear: manufacturers depend on secure, reliable and sustainable supply chains to make things in America,” said NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons.

• “Critical minerals and rare earth elements are essential for automative parts and vehicles, electrical grid components, robotics and industrial automation, defense technology, electronics and more. With China dominating global supply chains, manufacturers can no longer risk these vulnerabilities.”
• “Manufacturers support the administration and Congress’ efforts to rebalance global supply chains through comprehensive actions domestically and with international partners. The comprehensive approach the NAM is releasing today will enhance critical minerals capacity at home, leverage resources abroad and safeguard access to a diverse range of critical minerals necessary for U.S. economic strength and national security.”  

NAM in the news: POLITICO’s Morning Trade newsletter (subscription) covered the agenda in an exclusive this morning.
 
Learn more: Read the NAM’s full policy strategy here.