U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer: China's rare earths move was 'totally disproportional'

It was incredibly aggressive. It was totally disproportional to anything that uh the US, the EU or Canada or anybody did because remember these are global measures that the Chinese have put in place to purport to control the movement or export of any item containing certain rare earth from one country to another, right. Even if China is not uh you know one of the parties uh in the agreement.So in Geneva we had an agreement where they would limit their rare earth export controls. they'd keep their retaliator ...