The launch of this price assessment is to meet market demand for price transparency amid the introduction of new trade barriers and obstacles, namely China’s introduction of export controls on bismuth metal in February, and the subsequent decoupling of bismuth metal and bismuth oxide prices. The specifications are as follows: MB-BI-0003 Bismuth oxide, cif Rotterdam, $/lbQuality: […]

China has introduced new export controls on five critical metals and related technologies, effective from February 4.

The price of bismuth should recede further from the five-year peak seen in September with the imminent return of Newmont Corp’s Peñasquito mine in Mexico, buyers in the US said this week