SHANGHAI, May 14 (SMM) – Social inventories of primary aluminium ingots in China continued to fall sharply this week, showed the latest SMM data.
Social inventories of primary aluminium ingots across eight consumption areas in China, including SHFE warrants, decreased 114,000 mt from Wednesday May 6 to 1.058 million mt as of Thursday May 14, after a decline of 32,000 mt between April 30 and May 6.



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