| From Commodity Online: During the first 11 months of 2010, world apparent usage of copper grew by 7.2% (approximately 1.2 million metric tonnes) compared with that in the same period of 2009, principally owing to recovery from weak 2009 usage levels in the European Union (EU), Japan, and the United States, where usage grew by 10%, 22%, and 7%, respectively.
Although these year-on-year growth rates are strong, usage in the EU, Japan and the United States remained well below pre-crisis levels..............................................Full Article: Source
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