Trump announces rare minerals framework

A car drives through a desert where a signboard which reads “Welcome to the Hotan Unity New Village” is seen on display in Hotan, in western China’s Xinjiang region on Sept. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States will get magnets and rare earth minerals from China under a new trade framework and that tariffs on Chinese goods will total 55 per cent. In return, Trump said, the U.S. will provide China "what was agreed to," including allowing Chinese students to attend American colleges and universities. The Republican president had recently…