Late in December, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo announced an export ban on bauxite, effective in June this year. The announcement is significant on a number of counts, not least because it followed a World Trade Organisation (WT0) ruling a month earlier against an Indonesian export ban on another metal, nickel.
The news on bauxite speaks of not just Indonesia’s ambitions for its metals processing sector, but also the President’s dreams of Indonesia as a global electric vehicle hub. Bauxite is a primary alloy in the manufacture of aluminium, a key component in EV technology.
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