Lithium Table
During the meeting, the Board, chaired by the Governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Moralesit was agreed on the need to implement mechanisms so that lithium-producing companies allocate a percentage of said production for industrialization and value addition in the Argentine Republic, particularly in the provinces that produce the resource in the face of the challenge of electromobility and the need for renewable energy storage.
In addition, the Lithium Board expressed its concern that the provinces are not participating in the extraordinary profits obtained by the companies, from the considerable growth of the international price, for which it is evaluating what measures to adopt.
“We have decided to implement a debate and negotiations with the companies, and implement measures so that as much lithium as possible remains in the Argentine Republic for its industrialization for value-added projects. In addition, we have raised our concern, since there is an exorbitant increase in lithium prices at the international level, that this is not compatible with the income that the letiferous provinces are receiving, a topic about which we are going to talk with the companies of Jujuy, Salta and Catamarca”, Morales expressed during the meeting.
Assistants
In addition to Jujuy, the governor of Catamarca, Raúl Jalil, participated in the meeting; the one from Salta, Gustavo Saénz; the Secretary of Strategic Affairs of the Nation, Mercedes Marcó del Pont; Roberto Salvarezza, Chairman of the Board of Y-TEC and YPF Litio; Hernán Letcher, director of the Center for Political Economy Argentina-Cepa; the national senator for Catamarca Lucía Corpacci, and Marcelo Murúa, Minister of Mining of Catamarca.
Source: Ambito
