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Canada orders three Chinese companies to divest from Canadian critical minerals companies

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Calgary-based Lithium Chile has ownership in the largest high-grade lithium reserves in the world comprising 79,900 hectares in Chile and 23,300 hectares in Argentina. Chengze Lithium International Limited—China’s second-largest lithium processor—is required to divest itself of its investment in Lithium Chile.

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EIA: US biodiesel and renewable diesel imports decline 36% in 2014

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EIA attributed the decline mainly to uncertainty surrounding future Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) targets and the absence of a late-year influx of volumes from Argentina. The remaining volumes of regular biodiesel imports entered the United States primarily on the East Coast, mostly from Indonesia and Argentina.

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Electric motorcycles are gaining momentum

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Actor Ewan McGregor and his friend, Charley Boorman, premiered “ Long Way Up ,” which follows them riding from Argentina to Los Angeles on electric Harley-Davidson LiveWire motorcycles. Federal tax credit : Tax credit for the purchase of a new two-wheeled plug-in electric drive motor vehicle.

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EIA: US biomass-based diesel imports increased to record levels in 2013; from net exporter to net importer

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per gallon biodiesel blending tax credit, which expired on 31 December 2013. The increase in imports of regular biodiesel were primarily from Argentina, particularly in the final four months (September to December). This increase in production during 2013 was driven in part by favorable blending economics by way of the $1.00

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Global biofuels production up 17% in 2010 to hit all-time high of 105 billion liters

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High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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US EV policy to boost free trade agreement nations in battery metal trade – ET Auto

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sourced battery metals such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel in tax credit-eligible EVs, low domestic production levels are expected to keep the US reliant on foreign producers. Efforts by the Biden administration to establish FTA-like agreements with other key players, including nickel giant Indonesia and Argentina, are underway.

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USDA Long-Term Projections See Ongoing But Slower Growth in Corn Use for Ethanol

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USDA’s projections assume the ethanol tax credit (reduced to $0.45/gallon Less than half this volume is assumed to be from domestic first-use vegetable oils, partly due to the equalization of the biodiesel tax credit ($1.00 Normal weather also is assumed throughout the projection period.