Chinese exports of aluminum soar 11% in June

ALUMINUM exports from China, the world's largest producer of the metal, jumped to the highest in more than three years as smelters took advantage of rising global prices.

Sales of the metal and its products rose by 11 percent to 300,000 metric tons in June from a month earlier, customs figures showed yesterday.

"The amount looks big and the growth is led by aluminum alloys which don't incur export taxes," said Wen Xianjun, director at the aluminum department of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association.

Aluminum, used in buildings and cars, has rallied 36 percent this year after power shortages in China and South Africa curbed output. The metal reached a record of US$3,380.15 a ton last week after China's producers pledged to cut output to help ease a nationwide power shortage.

Exports of tin and alloys from China, the world's largest producer and consumer, fell to a record low of 1 ton in June, according to customs data.

A 10-percent duty on tin exports "has worked well so far" in curbing the metal's overseas sales, Liu Minda, an analyst at Huatai Securities, said yesterday by phone from Nanjing.

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