Then you'll be disppaointed to learn the point of the policy is to achieve the opposite.
You see, by buying cheap, imported supplies we're slowing consumption of domestic supplies, which they want you to believe is bad.
Their plan is to raise the price of American manufactured goods that contain these supplies by reducing their sources, which will have the added bonus of reducing our domestic supply sources of these elements faster. This is somehow in our 'strategic interest'.
That's what you get when you trust 'the Commerce Department developing a federal strategy to ensure supplies of the minerals remain reliable'.
There is such a thing as recycling.
Also, if we use so little of the domestic stuff that the pipeline ossifies in disuse, we won’t be able to quickly get at it when needed.