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US and Japan Make Trade Deal for Battery Minerals Ahead of Treasury Decision

28 Mar 2023 | Abstracted from Electrek

"...Japan has found a different way around these requirements, or at least one of them, by signing a narrow free trade agreement with the US solely for battery critical minerals...agreement will potentially add Japan to the list of free trade countries that can extract or process the critical minerals in EV batteries...it's up to the Treasury now to decide if this new agreement counts under its interpretation of what a "free trade agreement" is.

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