
According to Reuters, India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated during her annual budget speech on February 1st that India has scrapped customs duties on waste and scrap from a dozen critical minerals, including those of antimony, cobalt, tungsten, copper, lead, zinc, as well as waste and scrap of lithium-ion battery. Sitharaman said that this move will help secure their availability for manufacturing in India. Furthermore, the Indian government will also launch a policy for recovery of critical minerals from tailings…