{"id":132505,"date":"2025-07-09T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132505"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:00:13","slug":"surprise-us-copper-tariff-tests-the-mettle-of-chinas-vast-refining-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132505","title":{"rendered":"Surprise US copper tariff tests the mettle of China\u2019s vast refining industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostShockwaves from Washington\u2019s decision to impose a 50 per cent tariff on copper imports are still rippling across the Pacific, and China, the world\u2019s largest consumer of the metal, is feeling the effects.<br \/>\nCopper futures traded in the US rallied on the tariff threat, expanding a price gap with the London and China markets, where prices fell.<br \/>\nThe most active copper futures contracts traded on the Shanghai Futures Exchange fell by 1.36 per cent on Wednesday following US President Donald Trump\u2019s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3317571\/surprise-us-copper-tariff-tests-mettle-chinas-vast-refining-industry?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostShockwaves from Washington\u2019s decision to impose a 50 per cent tariff on copper imports are still rippling across the Pacific, and China, the world\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}