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The Democratic Republic of Congo plans to establish special economic zones for companies that manufacture goods from the country\u2019s minerals, President Joseph Kabila said.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThere is a need to create special economic zones for the final users of Congolese natural resources,\u201d Kabila said at a conference Wednesday in the southeastern city of Kolwezi. The area will allow producers of electric vehicles, smartphones and other goods to \u201cinstall themselves in the DRC,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Congo is the world\u2019s biggest source of cobalt, which is used to make rechargeable batteries in electric cars manufactured by companies including Volkswagen AG. The country also produces more than a quarter of the world\u2019s tantalum, used in Apple iPhones and other smartphones.<\/span><\/p>\n Congo\u2019s cobalt currently undergoes a first stage of processing in the country into concentrate or hydroxide, before being exported abroad, mainly to China, where it is transformed into the products required by battery makers.<\/span><\/p>\n The zones are being created to enable industries to transform raw materials into finished products, Evariste Mabi Mulumba, president of the Senate\u2019s economy and finance commission, said at the conference.\u00a0<\/span>Congo must \u201cemphasize economic diversification and must commit ourselves resolutely to the process of industrialization,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Mines Minster Martin Kabwelulu, who spoke earlier at the conference, also reiterated that the government won\u2019t brook any opposition to an amended mining code it began implementing in June. The regulations introduced new taxes and increased royalty payments, drawing criticism from miners including Glencore Plc, Randgold Resources Ltd. and China Molybdenum Co., which have threatened to sue to protect their investments.<\/span><\/p>\n Nobody, whether a company, civil society group or government, should \u201cattempt to question this text governing the mining sector,\u201d Kabwelulu said. \u201cAll that I would allow myself to say is to invite the different stakeholders, each following his own position, to commit themselves to implementing the measures of the revised mining law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Leia mais<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 minuto<\/small> The Democratic Republic of Congo plans to establish special economic zones for companies that manufacture goods from the country\u2019s minerals, President Joseph Kabila said.\u00a0\u201cThere is a need to create special economic zones for the final users of Congolese natural resources,\u201d Kabila said at a conference Wednesday in the southeastern city of Kolwezi. The area will allow producers of electric vehicles, smartphones and other goods to \u201cinstall themselves in the DRC,\u201d he said. Congo is the world\u2019s biggest source of cobalt, which is Continue lendo<\/span>\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-adm_hb2018","post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrazpe.org.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}