West seeks to ‘regionalize’ metals supply but won’t easily by-pass China: LME seminar

Despite new Western legislation which seeks to regionalize metals supply chains for the energy transition, it will be hard, perhaps impossible, to bypass supplies from China, according to speakers at the London Metal Exchange’s seminar Oct. 24. “The regionalization trend is real… but in the long term may almost inevitably reverse,” said Robin Martin, head of Market Development, LME, noting…