SANTIAGO, May 16 (Reuters) - Chile will open calls in
the second half of 2024 for lithium component producers to
obtain preferential pricing on the metal, President Gabriel
Boric announced on Thursday.
The Andean nation is the world's second-largest lithium
producer and the strategy announced by Boric last year is in
part aimed at spurring local investment in technologies using
lithium, including batteries and battery components.
Chile's economic development agency CORFO last year awarded
preferential pricing contracts for lithium produced by SQM
to Chinese electric-vehicle maker BYD and
China's Tsingshan Holding Group.