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.

(Sourced from Commodity)