Lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and vanadium all targeted in new $200 billion in proposed U.S. tariffs against China
Posted by Cory Groshek on July 11, 2018 12:49 am
Categories: NEN Exclusives
UPDATED as of 3:51 PM EST, July 11, 2018: The United States has just announced another round of potential tariffs against China, targeting a new US$2 billion worth of Chinese products, and included in the new products targeted are the following, which my Twitter followers and visitors of NewEnergyNarrative.com should find very relevant, as they are metals commonly referred to as “battery metals” or “energy metals”, due to the fact that they are widely used not only in the lithium-ion and flow batteries that power electric vehicles, home and grid-scale battery storage systems, and electronics such as smart phones and laptop computers, but in the charging infrastructure required for electric vehicles as well.
For those who do not understand what a tariff is, it is defined as a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports. In the case of the U.S. tariffs against China on the following energy/battery metals, the U.S. trade representative proposes an additional 10 percent ad valorem duty be placed upon them. In layman’s terms, this means that for any American user of them, such as, for example, Apple (which needs them for their laptop and smartphone batteries), it will cost 10 percent more to source such metals from China, as opposed to from elsewhere (such as domestically/within the United States, or from American allies, such as Canada and Australia).
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE LIST OF PRODUCTS TO BE POTENTIALLY SUBJECT TO TARIFFS: https://newenergynarrative.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/New-200-Billion-Dollars-in-Tariffs-Proposed-Against-China-by-the-United-States.pdf
Aluminum
2606.00.00 Aluminum ores and concentrates
2818.20.00 Aluminum oxide, other than artificial corundum
2818.30.00 Aluminum hydroxide
2827.32.00 Aluminum chloride
2833.22.00 Aluminum sulfate
2835.29.10 Aluminum phosphate
7602.00.00 Aluminum, waste and scrap
7603.10.00 Aluminum, powders of non-lamellar structure
7603.20.00 Aluminum, powders of lamellar structure; aluminum flakes
Cobalt
2605.00.00 Cobalt ores and concentrates
2822.00.00 Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commercial cobalt oxides
2827.39.60 Cobalt chlorides
2833.29.10 Cobalt sulfate
2836.99.10 Cobalt carbonates
2915.29.30 Cobalt acetates
8105.20.30 Cobalt alloys, unwrought
8105.20.60 Cobalt (other than alloys), unwrought
8105.20.90 Cobalt, mattes and other intermediate products of cobalt metallurgy; cobalt powders
8105.30.00 Cobalt waste and scrap
8105.90.00 Cobalt, articles thereof nesoi
Copper
2603.00.00 Copper ores and concentrates
2825.50.30 Copper hydroxides
2827.41.00 Chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides of copper
2833.25.00 Copper sulfate
Graphite
2504.10.10 Natural graphite, crystalline flake (not including flake dust)
2504.10.50 Natural graphite in powder or flakes (other than crystalline flake)
2504.90.00 Natural graphite, other than in powder or in flakes
3801.10.50 Artificial graphite, nesoi
Lithium
2825.20.00 Lithium oxide and hydroxide
2836.91.00 Lithium carbonates
Manganese
2602.00.00 Manganese ores and concentrates including ferruginous manganese ores &
concentrates with manganese content over 20% calculated on dry weight
2820.10.00 Manganese dioxide
2820.90.00 Manganese oxides, other than manganese dioxide
8111.00.30 Manganese, waste and scrap
8111.00.47 UNWROUGHT MANGANESE FLAKE CONTAINING AT LEAST 99.5 PERCENT BY WEIGHT MANGANESE
8111.00.49 UNWROUGHT MANGANESE, nesoi
8111.00.60 Manganese (o/than waste and scrap, unwrought) and articles thereof, nesoi
8506.10.00 Manganese dioxide primary cells and primary batteries
Nickel
2604.00.00 Nickel ores and concentrates
2825.40.00 Nickel oxides and hydroxides
2827.35.00 Nickel chloride
2833.24.00 Nickel sulfate
7502.10.00 Nickel (o/than alloy), unwrought
7502.20.00 Nickel alloys, unwrought
7503.00.00 Nickel, waste and scrap
7504.00.00 Nickel, powders and flakes
Vanadium
2825.30.00 Vanadium oxides and hydroxides
2827.39.10 Vanadium chlorides
2827.49.10 Chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides of vanadium
2833.29.30 Vanadium sulfate
Zinc
2608.00.00 Zinc ores and concentrates
2827.39.65 Zinc chloride
2817.00.00 Zinc oxide; zinc peroxide
2830.90.10 Zinc sulfide, luminescent grade, purity>= 99.99 % By wt.
2830.90.15 Zinc sulfide excluding luminescent grade
2833.29.45 Zinc sulfate
7901.11.00 Zinc (o/than alloy), unwrought, containing o/99.99% by weight of zinc
7901.12.10 Zinc (o/than alloy), unwrought, casting-grade zinc, containing at least 97.5% but less than 99.99% by weight of zinc
7901.12.50 Zinc (o/than alloy), unwrought, o/than casting-grade zinc, containing at least 97.5% but less than 99.99% by wt. of zinc
7902.00.00 Zinc, waste and scrap
7903.10.00 Zinc, dust
7903.90.30 Zinc, powders
7903.90.60 Zinc, flakes
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