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China Lowers Battery Scrap Import Duty to Aid Recycling Sector

Containers of 'black mass' at a battery recycling facility.

Photographer: Naina Helén Jåma/Bloomberg

China has lowered import tariffs for some battery scrap in a fresh bid to support its recycling industry.

Among a broad listBloomberg Terminal, the duty on so-called black mass of lithium-ion batteries, a type of scrap material, was reduced to 3% from 6.5% from Jan. 1.