January 1, 2027. Keep this date in mind.
Every U.S. defense contractor is legally banned from using Chinese magnets.
Chinese rare earth magnets are effectively out of the U.S. defense supply chain.
New Pentagon procurement rules require the entire supply chain from mining to finished magnet to be sourced outside China for covered defense contracts.
That impacts suppliers to Lockheed, RTX, Boeing, Northrop, and the rest of the defense industrial base. $MP $USAR $EMAT