...import reliance is synonomous with vulnerability or necessarily presents a high risk to the US economy. Other factors, such as the probability of a supply disruption or sharp price increase (eg the political and economic stability of the major suppliers) and its expected duration, concentration...

...Cabinet Council on Natural Resources and the Environment should define the term "strategic" to relate to the probability of a supply disruption or sharp price increase in a given nonfuel mineral or material market and its expected duration and the term "critical" to relate to the...