EXCLUSIVE: China’s customs lobby smelters to impose lower arsenic threshold on copper conc imports

摘要

China’s customs agency has held discussions with the country’s major copper smelters with the aim of creating stricter limits on impurities contained in imported copper concentrates, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Fastmarkets. Discussions were held with Jiangxi Copper, Tongling Nonferrous and Yunnan Copper last month proposing a series of changes to current requirements in a bid to combat pollution, a source said. The focal point of discussions was to lower the current 0.5% limit on arsenic contained in imported copper concentrates to 0.4%, the sources said.