Cobalt import continues to rise amid strong domestic demand

Since the 1990s China’s imports of cobalt con-centrate,unwrought cobalt,intermediate cobaltsmelter products and cobalt scrap have keptincreasing.The import growth of cobalt concentrate is par-ticularly noticeable in the recent two years.Forexample,in 2000 import was 10 times of that in1992,and in the first 11 months of 2001 it grewfurther by 73.5 per cent year-on-year to reach26,572 tons.Import of cobalt concentrate