{"id":4530,"date":"2019-05-21T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T02:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howigrowmywealth.com\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2019-05-21T22:28:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T02:28:37","slug":"technology-critical-element-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howigrowmywealth.com\/technology-critical-element-investing\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology-Critical Element Investing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Lithium, rare earth metals, vanadium, tungsten, palladium, and other platinum group metals are some of the technology critical materials that could be impacted by tariffs and the trade war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example lithium is used in lithium ion batteries, which can be found in cell phones, computers and even electric cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United States and China have been trading shots, one of the latest fired by China is a rare earth metal export ban. Since the United States relies on China for somewhere around 80% of its rare earth metal imports this could cause the Americans problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n