The easy era of critical mineral trade is over

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Critical minerals have evolved into strategic assets, leading governments to reexamine trade relations and prompting a surge in industrial projects to extract these resources in challenging locations worldwide. This shift impacts global trade frameworks.

Critical minerals have become strategic assets, prompting governments to rethink trade relationships and driving a wave of industrial projects into new and often challenging locations, writes Pappu Sastry, the CEO of ASL. I’ve been reading through UNCTAD’s latest work on critical minerals and global trade, and honestly, it’s one of those reports that doesn’t just …