Indonesia may impose a tax on nickel exports this year, President Joko Widodo says, as the biggest producer of the electric-vehicle battery metal looks to refine more at home. Jokowi told Bloomberg's Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait that he wants the nation to move up the EV supply chain, and ultimately to stop all exports of raw materials during an interview in West Java, Indonesia.
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