Risk assets staged a recovery yesterday amid growing hopes for a de-escalation in US-China trade tensions. President Trump ...

Chile is the top source of U.S. copper imports (51%), followed by Canada (31%), Mexico (7%), Peru (5%), and Congo (2%).

Copper smelters in China can extract gold from copper ore, and either refine it themselves or ship it to third parties, ...

The U.S. relies heavily on imports of refined copper - importing more than 44% of the average 1.7 million metric tons of refined copper it consumed per year from 2019 to 2023, according to an ...

(Yicai) April 21 -- Tengyuan Cobalt Industry New Materials, a Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicle battery materials, ...

In the first 11 months of 2024, the U.S. imported just 40 metric tons of copper concentrates and ore but some 813,00 metric tons of refined copper, according to U.S. Census Bureau data aggregated by ...

The majority of copper inflows are in the form of refined copper products, which make up 60 percent of US imports. On February 25, Trump signed an executive order invoking Section 232 of the Trade ...

BHP aims to increase copper production in South Australia to more than 500 000 t/y of refined copper cathode by the early ...

currently operating US smelters are unable to process all domestically produced concentrate — a lack of processing capacity that makes the US a significant importer of refined copper metal.

In China, the Yangshan premium — a gauge on the additional cost for shipping in refined copper — has nearly doubled this month. In Southeast Asia, meanwhile, import premiums have risen to the ...