Minerals Related Implications of a Direct Tax on U.S. Primary Lead Production and Primary Lead Imports

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• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Congress are considering the use of a tax on primary lead to reduce U.S. lead consumption, to generate revenues for a lead abatement program, and/or to encourage the secondary recovery and recycling of lead. The results of this study suggest a primary lead tax policy will be ineffective in achieving these objectives. This study assesses the economic impacts of a tax on primary lead and lead imports. Increased secondary supplies, largely from imports, are expected to displace domestic primary lead supplies that become uneconomic because of the tax and no substantial increase in lead battery recycling is estimated to result from the tax. A primary lead tax of $0.80 per pound would eliminate domestic primary lead production as well as reduce domestic source production of: zinc by 87%, silver by 16%, bismuth by 89%, cadmium by 85%, and would eliminate the most significant domestic source of germanium and indium presently available. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Economics Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Demand-economics Environment-management Exports Government-policies Imports Lead-acid-batteries Lead-metal Supply-economics Tariffs
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  WO - Washington Office
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-37
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039494
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-120661
• Citation:
  Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1993 Apr; :1-37
• CAS Registry Number:
  Bismuth (CAS RN 7440-69-9) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Silver (CAS RN 7440-22-4) ; Zinc (CAS RN 7440-66-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8998d541601a4e35b62e80ca47a89c2fbbbda7d602745f777e7fe03c81f1d0b38befaf5818197f7075d74f2e30e459ac4456cf210117a7966dc64c8a9b987722
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227358/cdc_227358_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 2.08 MB ]