In the United States, Audi has defended its plan for a 4 billion dollar plant in Georgia against questions raised by Volkswagen group restructuring and tariffs, CNBC reported on October 25. The defence adds company comment to the announcement first reported on October 24 and covered in full on this site that day; no new capital figure or timetable has been published.
In Mozambique, the Assembly of the Republic convened on Saturday, October 24 to vote on a revision of the 2026 state budget that records about 47.4 million euros of additional gas revenues and lifts public investment by 3.57 billion meticais, taking total state expenditure to 524.2 billion meticais. The Budget Monitoring Forum has objected to 500 million meticais earmarked for the Parliamentary City project inside the urgent expenditure package, arguing the money should be reassessed against social sector and disaster recovery needs; health and education each receive 300 million meticais in the revision.
On trade, the Trump administration has chosen negotiations over tariffs for wind turbine imports, Utility Dive reported. The choice matters for project economics because turbines and components are among the largest imported cost lines in US wind development, and a tariff route would have raised them directly; the talks route leaves the eventual cost treatment open.