CHANGE IN EU GSP SYSTEM TO IMPACT EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
November 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN IN BRUSSELS
THE EUROPEAN Commission is hoping that the recent overhaul of the European Union's (EU) Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) will increase the flow of rare earth metals and aluminium oxide into the EU. Concerns persist about supplies of these important industrial minerals. So the two materials were added to the list of products that can enter the EU duty-free from January 2014 when exported from the 89 countries still covered by the GSP system. They are among 23 new tariff lines given this status under the reformed system, also ...
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