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The Secretary of Commerce completed a Section 232 investigation and issued findings that imports of PCMDPs threaten to impair national security.
Official records show that on October 24, 2025 the Secretary of Commerce transmitted to President Trump a Section 232 report on imports of processed critical minerals and their derivative products (PCMDPs). In the January 14, 2026 presidential proclamation adjusting imports of PCMDPs, the President explicitly states that the Secretary’s investigation found PCMDPs “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.” This proclamation also describes the subsequent policy action (directing negotiations and possible future import adjustments) as taken “in light of these findings,” directly tying the action to the completed Section 232 investigation and its national-security threat determination. Independent reporting on the Section 232 probe similarly notes Commerce’s conclusion that U.S. reliance on foreign critical minerals and associated vulnerabilities formed the basis for the national security concern. Verdict: True, because the presidential proclamation and contemporaneous reporting confirm that the Commerce Secretary’s completed Section 232 investigation concluded PCMDP imports threaten to impair U.S. national security, and the January 2026 action is explicitly described as following from that finding.