{"id":5704,"date":"2025-06-26T15:59:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:18:07","slug":"switzerland-puts-rare-earth-elements-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/2025\/06\/26\/switzerland-puts-rare-earth-elements-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Media Puts Rare Earth Elements in the Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Swiss companies are beginning to feel the effects of export restrictions on rare earth elements imposed by China back in April. Switzerland primarily imports rare earth elements in the form of semi-finished products, which are used in everything from medical sensors to car engines. Growing concerns among Swiss companies and noticeable supply bottlenecks, especially regarding components imported from other European countries, were this month put in the focus of Swiss media. Read and listen to what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/wirtschaft\/china-kontrolliert-den-export-von-wichtigen-rohstoffen-schaerfer-jetzt-warnt-die-industrie-vor-versorgungsengpaessen-ld.1887918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung (NZZ)<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelszeitung.ch\/konjunktur\/die-macht-der-seltenen-erden-832526\">Handelszeitung<\/a> (the same article is also available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blick.ch\/wirtschaft\/kampf-um-die-rohstoffe-beschaeftigt-auch-bundesbern-die-macht-der-seltenen-erden-id20991984.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share-button&amp;utm_source=native-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blick<\/a>) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srf.ch\/audio\/echo-der-zeit\/handelskrieg-fuehrt-zu-engpaessen-bei-seltenen-erden?partId=TO9M4XB0TFGqVvHecDr--TFlTcs\">Echo der Zeit<\/a> have to say about the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss companies are beginning to feel the effects of export restrictions on rare earth elements imposed by China back in April. Switzerland primarily imports rare earth elements in the form of semi-finished products, which are used in everything from medical sensors to car engines. Growing concerns among Swiss companies and noticeable supply bottlenecks, especially regarding&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/2025\/06\/26\/switzerland-puts-rare-earth-elements-in-the-spotlight\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":5708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}