News & Insights

News & Insights

Selected articles and observations on China's non-ferrous metals market, export channels and trade nodes.

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Selected Industry Articles

Practical, deal-ready insights on mine-source authenticity, land ports, bonded-warehouse delivery, letters of credit and TT payment milestones.

Trade Risk Control

A00 Aluminium Ingot Purchasing: Invoice Compliance, Payment and Handling Abnormal Vouchers

A passed invoice check only proves the data on its face is currently verifiable — not that the trade is genuine, that title sits with the seller, or that the input tax will ultimately be creditable. A00 ingot purchases need the contract, cargo, title, funds and invoice chains checked together, with payment tied to title transfer, acceptance and invoice status.

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Trade Risk Control

Eight signals to check before you fall into a non-ferrous broker trap

The danger is not whether the counterparty is a broker. It is whether information asymmetry, fabricated authority, unverifiable documents and early payment are being used in place of the evidence a trade should produce. Eight signals, four composite cases, and ten checks to complete before you pay.

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Practice Guide

From enquiry to settlement: the assistant a smaller overseas minerals trader actually needs

There is cargo overseas and demand in China, so why does the order never land? The break is rarely supply and demand — it is that the pricing basis, the evidence, the cost, the contract and the payment milestones were never run through one process.

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Trade Risk Control

Selling minerals into China takes more than finding a buyer

China export compliance and bonded routes in practice, 2026: three common misconceptions, four layers of admissibility, how tax actually works, and what bonded storage and bonded blending really do.

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Overseas Business

Overseas business — Non-ferrous metals export-to-China trade framework

For overseas mines, washing plants and traders — the standard flow from authenticity verification and sample testing to FCA/FOB/CIF contract terms and delivery into China's bonded warehouses.

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Channel Insight

Channel insight — Central Asia non-ferrous metals corridor to China

A look at Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Central Asian land ports, mapping the customs-clearance routes to China for copper concentrate, lead-zinc ore and chrome ore.

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Trade Risk Control

Trade risk control — Quick guide to delivery channels and payment milestones

Comparing FCA land port, FOB sea freight, CIF China bonded warehouse and warehouse-receipt-endorsement delivery, with the payment structures and document loops common to a first trial order.

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Industry Data & Market Information

上海期货交易所

Shanghai Futures Exchange

 上海有色网

Shanghai Metals Market (SMM)

 长江有色金属网

Yangtze Nonferrous Metals (CCMN)

 富宝资讯

Fubao Info (F139)

 我的钢铁网

Mysteel

 保太集团

Baotai Group

 中国口岸协会

China Association of Ports (CAOP)

 中国报关协会

China Customs Brokers Association

 中国保税区出口加工区协会

China Association of Bonded Areas and Export Processing Zones