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Statement of a transmitted report and finding; no future completion condition.
A January 14, 2026 presidential proclamation states that on October 24, 2025, the Secretary of Commerce transmitted to the President a report under Section 232 on imports of processed critical minerals and their derivative products, and that the Secretary found these imports "are being imported into the United States in such quantities and under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of the United States." A contemporaneous White House fact sheet likewise notes that the action "follows the Secretary of Commerce’s completion of a Section 232 investigation, which found that the present quantities and circumstances of the imports of processed critical minerals and their derivative products threaten to impair national security." The April 15, 2025 executive order and its Federal Register publication document the initiation of this specific Section 232 investigation into processed critical minerals and their derivative products, aligning with the later report and findings described in the proclamation and fact sheet. The verdict is True because multiple official U.S. government documents explicitly confirm that the Commerce Secretary transmitted an October 24, 2025 report concluding that such imports threaten to impair U.S. national security.