Battery-Making Rivals to Settle Trade Rift That Threatened Georgia Plant
April 10 2021 - 3:08PM
Dow Jones News
By Ben Foldy
Korean battery-making rivals SK Innovation Co. and LG Chem Ltd.
have agreed to settle a trade-secret dispute that had threatened a
$2.6 billion factory SKI is building in Georgia set to supply Ford
Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG with electric-vehicle batteries,
according to people familiar with the matter.
That plant's future had been in doubt after the U.S.
International Trade Commission in February sanctioned SKI with a
10-year ban on importing batteries and the materials necessary to
make them after finding the company destroyed evidence relating to
the dispute.
The agreement between the battery makers hasn't yet been
finalized, the people said. A spokeswoman for SK Innovation
declined to comment.
The settlement comes just ahead of a Sunday deadline for the
Biden administration to potentially veto the trade commission's
decision. President Biden has made electric vehicles and the
batteries that power them a core component of his proposed $2.3
trillion infrastructure program. As part of that plan, he has
proposed investing $174 billion in spurring uptake of electric
vehicles.
(More to Come)
Write to Ben Foldy at Ben.Foldy@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 10, 2021 15:53 ET (19:53 GMT)
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