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China’s metals overcapacity to bear down on prices

While the debate around China’s manufacturing overcapacity has centred around politically sensitive topics such as electric vehicles, its industrial metals sector is no exception. Whereas the focus of the broader macro debate revolves around market share, the release valve in this case will be lower benchmark prices.

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