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    "clause": "Sec. 3",
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    "targetEntities": [],
    "targetEndUsersAsStated": [],
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    "modifiesExternalInstruments": [],
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        "status": "investigation",
        "date": "2025-04-15",
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        "note": "The order directs the Secretary of Commerce to initiate the investigation."
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      {
        "status": "concluded",
        "date": "2025-10-24",
        "sourceId": "src-fedreg-proc-11001",
        "until": null,
        "note": "The Secretary transmitted his report to the President on 24 October 2025 (Proclamation 11001, para. 1). The proclamation, signed 14 January 2026, directs negotiations in clauses (1)–(3) and imposes no tariff or quota; it is recorded as an event, not as a control measure, because it restricts nothing."
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        "sourceId": "src-fedreg-eo-14272",
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        "evidence": "explicit",
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      },
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        "sourceId": "src-fedreg-proc-11001",
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        "note": null
      },
      {
        "sourceId": "src-fedreg-eo-14272",
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        ],
        "evidence": "ambiguous",
        "locator": "Secs. 1–3",
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      }
    ],
    "notes": "Sec. 2 defines critical minerals by the USGS list plus uranium, and derivative products to include permanent magnets. Only the materials the order names are attributed."
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    "id": "evt-us-eo-14272-2025",
    "date": "2025-04-15",
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    "titleEn": "Ensuring National Security and Economic Resilience Through Section 232 Actions on Processed Critical Minerals and Derivative Products",
    "documentNumber": "Executive Order 14272; 90 FR 16437 (FR Doc. 2025-06836)"
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      "id": "src-fedreg-eo-14272",
      "title": "Executive Order 14272 — Ensuring National Security and Economic Resilience Through Section 232 Actions on Processed Critical Minerals and Derivative Products",
      "publisher": "Executive Office of the President / Federal Register",
      "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/18/2025-06836/ensuring-national-security-and-economic-resilience-through-section-232-actions-on-processed-critical",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2025-04-18",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-08-12",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Canonical Federal Register text, 90 FR 16437 (FR Doc. 2025-06836), signed 15 April 2025. Read in full 2026-08-12 via the Federal Register full-text endpoint (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2025/04/18/2025-06836.txt); the HTML page above 302-redirects automated clients to an unblock page. Source of the two verbatim section 1 framing anchors, the section 2 definitions, and the section 3 instruction to the Secretary of Commerce to open the section 232 investigation."
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      "id": "src-fedreg-proc-11001",
      "title": "Proclamation 11001 of January 14, 2026: Adjusting Imports of Processed Critical Minerals and Their Derivative Products Into The United States",
      "publisher": "Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives)",
      "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/20/2026-01045/adjusting-imports-of-processed-critical-minerals-and-their-derivative-products-into-the-united",
      "language": "en",
      "datePublished": "2026-01-20",
      "dateAccessed": "2026-09-23",
      "sourceType": "official",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "notes": "Canonical Federal Register text, 91 FR 2439 (FR Doc. 2026-01045), signed 14 January 2026. Read in full 2026-09-23 via the Federal Register full-text endpoint (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/01/20/2026-01045.txt). Source of the 24 October 2025 report date, the negotiation mandate and the 180-day update requirement."
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