The global copper market is experiencing price volatility due to a combination of factors, including scrap shortages, US-China trade tensions, and policy changes in China. China's halt on US copper ...

The removal of customs duty on copper scrap in the Union Budget 2025-26 marks a significant step toward facilitating a ...

Statewide requirements to help prevent copper wire theft will become law on Jan. 1 despite a lawsuit by the scrap metal workers claiming the legislation will effectively shut down their industry. The ...

Signed statements submitted to the Department of Commerce this week negate allegations that excess inventories of copper-based scrap are present in the U.S. market, according to a spokesman for the ...

MONTREAL — In an industrial suburb of Montreal, sheets of copper move along a conveyor belt suspended four stories above the floor of a foundry — a metals plant — until they drop into a lava-hot ...

Possible US copper import tariffs might not impact copper prices and the share prices of copper producers in the way many investors expect. US copper markets have been preparing for tariffs by adding ...

On February 25, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to initiate an investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ...

A new UN report will be music to the ears of South Africa’s copper cable thieves. With shortages looming for the red metal that is crucial to the green energy transition, the UN’s trade and ...