In 2021, approximately 25 percent of the lithium used in the United States was imported from other countries. The U.S. import reliance on graphite, on the other hand, was 100 percent as the U.S. does not domestically produce the mineral.
Net import reliance on critical minerals in the United States in 2021, by mineral
The critical minerals listed in this statistic are as published in the (U.S.) Federal Register on May 18, 2018. Not all critical minerals are shown due to a lack of available data on selected minerals.
*Refinery production.
**Includes lanthanides and yttrium but excludes most scandium.
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