According to SMM, Ivan Arriagada, CEO of copper mining company Antofagasta, stated at an event on Thursday that amid the backdrop of the Trump administration imposing a 50% tariff on copper, the company's planned copper mine project in the US sees opportunities. Arriagada said it was important to see how the US copper tariff would be implemented. "We are not currently sending more copper to the US, and we are maintaining our existing sales contracts." Aurora Williams, Chile's Minister of Mining, who spoke alongside Arriagada, said that the government had not yet received precise information on how the copper tariff would be implemented.