China copper concentrate imports in September up by 22pct YoY
Monday, 02 Nov 2009
Commodity reported that China’s General Administration of Customs as saying that country’s copper concentrate imports totaled 561,997 tonnes in September.
According to statistics released by GAC, the figure reflects 22% growth compared with imports in the same period of 2008 and 6.2% growth from the 529,156 tonnes imported in August.
In January to September 2009, the country's copper concentrate imports were 4.69 million tonnes up 20% YoY. In September, China's refined copper imports were 282,828 up 152.11% YoY. In August, China imported 219,731 tonne of refined copper, 152.08% more than last August.
China's import and export value in September decreased 10.1% YoY to USD 218.94 billion comprising import value of USD 103.01 billion and export value of USD 115.93 billion down 3.5% and 15.2% from a year earlier respectively.
