US NATIONAL SECURITY ARGUMENT
Trump eyes executive order targeting ‘conflict minerals’ rule
Washington — US President Donald Trump is planning to issue an executive order targeting a controversial Dodd-Frank rule that requires companies to disclose whether their products contain "conflict minerals" from a war-torn part of Africa, according to sources familiar with the administration’s thinking. Reuters could not learn the precise timing of the order’s issuance, or exactly what it will say. However, the 2010 Dodd-Frank law explicitly gives the president authority to order the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to temporarily suspend or revise the rule for two years if it is in the national security interest of the US. The plan for the executive order comes on the heels of another order issued by the White House last week that takes aim more broadly at the Dodd-Frank rules put into place after the 2007-09 financial crisis.
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