LONDON: China is short of copper scrap. This is largely a problem of its own making. China has steadily restricted imports of a material officially designated as "waste" during its broader war on pollution.
Beijing had intended to ban all copper scrap imports at the end of this year in the same way it has already locked out other forms of "foreign garbage" such as used plastic.
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