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Aluminum Prices Hit Two-Year High On Smelter Output Limits In China\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Aluminum prices in London reached their highest in two years as the\u00a0industrial metals rebound theme continued,\u00a0driven by a combination of\u00a0supply constraints and the prospect of increased demand in China and the US.<\/p>\n

The latest driver for the\u00a0silvery-white, lightweight metal, used in everything from vehicles to aircraft to window frames to soda cans, comes as\u00a0China, the world’s top producer, signaled overnight aggressive emission-cutting targets for smelters, in return, tighter metal capacity.<\/p>\n

In a further boost for the bulls<\/em><\/strong>, China’s State Council pledged to\u00a0<\/em>strengthen capacity limits<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in industries from\u00a0<\/em>steel to alumina<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in a work plan for energy conservation and carbon reduction in 2024-25. The move to constrain additional supply comes at a time when the transition to greener energy is\u00a0<\/em>boosting demand for copper and aluminum<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The country will\u00a0<\/em>strictly control new capacity for copper smelters and alumina output<\/em><\/strong>, and take a reasonable approach in allocating fresh capacity for silicon, lithium and magnesium, the government said late Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n

The government also reiterated strict implementation of the “<\/em>aluminum swap scheme<\/em><\/strong>,” or the requirement for any new smelter to be matched by closure of an existing one. New capacity for aluminum, alumina, polysilicon and lithium batteries must meet advanced levels of energy efficiency, it added. –Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With the US economy chugging along with the US government spending $1 trillion every 100 days, i.e., stealth stimulus, demand for metals and other commodities has increased. Easing in China has also boosted the prospect of demand increases for industrial metals. However, Chaos Ternary Research Institute wrote in a note that a near-term pullback in\u00a0aluminum prices is quite possibly because of\u00a0inventories in China and deliveries to the London Metal Exchange, which remain elevated.<\/p>\n

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Aluminum Prices Hit Two-Year High On Smelter Output Limits In China\u00a0 Aluminum prices in London reached their highest in two years as the\u00a0industrial metals rebound theme continued,\u00a0driven by a combination of\u00a0supply constraints and the prospect of increased demand in China and the US. The latest driver for the\u00a0silvery-white, lightweight metal, used in everything from vehicles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[34668,130,151,13351,34669,3222],"class_list":["post-68446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-aluminum-price","tag-china","tag-commodities","tag-price-inflation","tag-trade-restrictions","tag-trade-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68449,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446\/revisions\/68449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}