RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (REUTERS) Peru’s presidential front-runner is taking aim at copper mining firms’ coveted tax stability agreements that freeze tariffs, and the plan could have an outsized impact on Chinese miners in the world’s No. 2 producer of the red metal.
Far-left candidate Pedro Castillo, the narrow favorite to win Sunday’s run-off vote, has proposed new royalties on mineral sales and has floated a plan to renegotiate long-standing tax deals struck under previous governments.
A schoolteacher who was a shock winner in the first round vote, Castillo has accused mining firms . . .
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