| China will be the key determinant of industrial metal prices this year. Nothing new there then. The country has played the starring role in the sector for many years, thanks to its stellar contribution to global demand growth for everything from aluminium to zinc.
What has changed over the last couple of years, though, is the country's own surging output of refined metals following years of production capacity growth. In the aluminium market, for instance, what China imports from the rest of the world is far less significant for prices than what it exports...............................................Full Article: Source
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