• Supply chains have been beset by a swathe of new trade protectionism in the past week. In new research, we take a deep dive into the US administration of President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on imports from mainland China. We also dig into mainland China’s tariffs on US chemicals and Taiwanese polycarbonate, the US withdrawal of a Venezuelan oil license and duties on steel applied by Brazil, Chile and Mexico.
• A recent closed-invite battery materials seminar held on behalf of the US Department of Energy found that investment is being held up by the chicken-and-egg problem of mat...