Silver prices surge as China restricts exports and global inventories drop 70%. Physical supply gaps widen amid rising industrial demand.

Another new chapter is being written in the long history of trade tensions between the United States and China. The U.S. government is now considering imposing export restrictions on specific software considered critical to China as a mitigating measure to ...

Elon Musk warned that China's new silver export restrictions could hurt industries using the metal as an input with the precious metal's prices hit record highs.

ZURICH, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The Swiss parliament is poised to relax restrictions on weapons exports, a significant but delicate shift that aims to support the domestic arms industry without compromising the country's neutrality. The lower house of parliament ...

The United States led global production of rare earth elements (REEs) until the mid-1990s, when China emerged as the dominant supplier. China maintained near-total control of the market until 2012. This monopoly began to face limited competition with the ...

Russia faces fuel shortages and price hikes after Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries, prompting export restrictions on gasoline and diesel. Central Asian countries like Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are heavily impacted, with Tajikistan hit ...

The OECD finds that export restrictions on cobalt, lithium and nickel can encourage some domestic processing and raise short-term revenues, but their benefits are often limited, uneven and heavily dependent on foreign investment.

Oct. 10 (UPI) --President Donald Trump is imposing another 100% in tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the United States and will restrict software exports to China. The new tariffs are in addition to an existing 30% tariff on Chinese goods and would take ...