You were wrong, American got tons of raw materials but they don't really want use it,if China suspended supply American can get their own anytime.
But it would take years for the Americans to build the technology and infrastructure to start using their own resources. Just like it will take years for the Chinese to develop the technology to build processors without ARM. The American tech industry would be doomed for a long time without Chinese resources and manufacturing.
If China pulled the plug, the tech giants share prices would nosedive overnight, Apple and Google are heavily invested in the Chinese manufacturing of their products, as it is cheap labour - cheap labour means bigger profits for shareholders, bringing this kind of manufacturing process back to America is extremely costly and time consuming. As I said before, he'll step on the toes of his masters and this will be reversed in the blink of an eye - although I feel the damage to Huawei is going to be permanent in terms of consumer confidence, so on that score the oompa loompa has won.
