The Minerals Council of Australia has welcomed US President Donald Trump’s decision not to impose quotas on uranium imports, following an investigation by the US Department of Commerce into foreign imports of uranium.
Trump rejected findings by the Commerce Secretary that foreign uranium posed a threat to US national security, saying that although the Secretary’s finding’s raised significant concerns around the impact of uranium imports on national security, with respect to domestic mining, a fuller analysis of national security considerations with respect to the entire nuclear fuel supply chain was necessary.