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  "slug": "rare-earths-trade",
  "kind": "flow",
  "title": "Rare earths: the leading trade routes",
  "subtitle": "15 retained leading routes · 2024",
  "takeaway": "Vietnam → Japan is the largest retained route. Displayed routes cover 60.5% of primary-line world trade.",
  "period": "2024",
  "unit": "USD",
  "publisher": "CEPII BACI via Commodity Origins",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
  "licenseUrl": "https://commodityorigins.com/sources/",
  "attribution": "CEPII BACI; derived primary-HS-line corridor snapshot from Commodity Origins.",
  "retrievedAt": null,
  "vintage": "2026-10-10T22:48:06.733043+00:00",
  "method": "Ribbon widths represent USD value for the 15 retained leading exporter–importer routes. These represent 60.5% of primary-line world value (1250 total corridors). Node totals cover displayed routes only.",
  "notes": [
    "Selected primary HS line only, not all rare earths products or physical tonnage. Reporting year 2024; snapshot generated 2026-10-10. Acquisition date is not supplied.",
    "Other routes are omitted. The data export contains exactly the displayed routes; broader commodity coverage is in the linked retained snapshot."
  ],
  "explorer": "/patterns/trade-flows/",
  "rows": [
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      "place": "Vietnam",
      "code": "VNM",
      "destination": "Japan",
      "destinationCode": "JPN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "162145793",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 14.4637670429555,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · rare-earths · VNM → JPN"
    },
    {
      "place": "Australia",
      "code": "AUS",
      "destination": "Malaysia",
      "destinationCode": "MYS",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "128057261",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 11.422993819290461,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "China",
      "code": "CHN",
      "destination": "Japan",
      "destinationCode": "JPN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "79259129",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 7.07009140769726,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "China",
      "code": "CHN",
      "destination": "India",
      "destinationCode": "IND",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "50397082",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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    },
    {
      "place": "China",
      "code": "CHN",
      "destination": "United States",
      "destinationCode": "USA",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "49415611.00000001",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "China",
      "code": "CHN",
      "destination": "France",
      "destinationCode": "FRA",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "25934227",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 2.3133909972436144,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Thailand",
      "code": "THA",
      "destination": "Japan",
      "destinationCode": "JPN",
      "period": "2024",
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      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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    },
    {
      "place": "China",
      "code": "CHN",
      "destination": "South Korea",
      "destinationCode": "KOR",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "23041862",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Germany",
      "code": "DEU",
      "destination": "United States",
      "destinationCode": "USA",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "21997040",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "China",
      "code": "CHN",
      "destination": "Singapore",
      "destinationCode": "SGP",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "20630563.000000004",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Vietnam",
      "code": "VNM",
      "destination": "China",
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      "value": "19889959",
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    },
    {
      "place": "China",
      "code": "CHN",
      "destination": "Vietnam",
      "destinationCode": "VNM",
      "period": "2024",
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      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "France",
      "code": "FRA",
      "destination": "United States",
      "destinationCode": "USA",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "17797706.000000004",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "United Kingdom",
      "destinationCode": "GBR",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "17618205",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 1.5715832530729539,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "China",
      "destinationCode": "CHN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "17353513",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · rare-earths · USA → CHN"
    }
  ],
  "commodity": "rare-earths",
  "topic": "Trade routes",
  "coveragePct": 60.49433170154705
}