China Copper Treatment Charges Dropping, Barclays Says

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Chinese copper treatment and refining charges are declining, driven by “extremely poor performance on the mine supply-side” and a lack of scrap supply, Barclays Capital said in a report.

Charges that reached 31 cents a pound in May fell to as low as 6 cents in the spot market this month, New York-based Barclays analyst Nicholas Snowdon said today.