Huawei turns to the American Court system to fend off attacks from washington and as the u. S. China trade standoff escalates beijing hints at choking off vital rare earth exports to the u. S. Also on the show their boss celebrates its 50th birthday in true middle age fashion contemplating past successes and failures. And spinning an old tradition into a new revenue stream how kenyan farmers are swapping high risk crops for silk production. Welcome to dean of the business im Stephen Beard symbolism its good to have you with us while way officials complain the us President Donald Trump is applying the full weight of the american state to kill their business a spike that the chinese Telecoms Giant is now appealing to u. S. Courts to find in the firms favor arguing the u. S. Ban has hardware is unconstitutional meanwhile the Trade Dispute between the 2
nations continues to simmer with beijing now threatening to restrict key mineral exports to the u. S. For huawei the case is clear politic
materials to the u.s. several sectors such as tank and industrial ones could feel the impact sends a rare earth as are used in many markets and electronics found in a range of products any restriction good enough rising input costs are for many companies but since the new pos chinese limits of these materials is big not up in the u.s. so macho rarer the prices by most recently in 2011 for example after china reduce export quarters but since then companies such as are already investing in technology to recover and recycle them actually some consider all their measures such as currency devaluation or technology manufacturing restrictions will be far more effective than restrictions on rare earth exports and zooming out of looks like investors were jittery today about the trade dispute briefly what can you tell us. the idea that maybe there is no end in sight for 20 tensions between the