Refined Zinc, Lead, Tin & Nickel

CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers four refined base metals that are bought on purity, brand and paperwork: zinc ingot (SHG 99.995% to the LME contract and ASTM B6, High Grade and Prime Western) for galvanisers and die-casters, refined lead (99.97% to ASTM B29 and 99.985–99.99% high-purity, primary and secondary refined) for battery makers, tin ingot (99.85% to ASTM B339 Grade A and 99.9%+ solder grade) for solder and tinplate, and Class 1 nickel (full-plate and cut cathode, briquettes and pellets at 99.80%+ to ASTM B39) for stainless, plating and battery precursors. Each is priced off the LME reference plus a premium for brand, form and delivery region, with LME-registered brands above off-brand metal. UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations sum to USD 12.07 billion for unwrought zinc (HS 7901), USD 9.55 billion for unwrought nickel (HS 7502), USD 6.98 billion for unwrought lead (HS 7801) and USD 5.85 billion for unwrought tin (HS 8001) across the reporting countries.

The desk works smelter, refinery and trader parcels against the producer's certificate of analysis, the brand certificate and a certificate of origin, with the smelter named and checked against the RMI conformant smelter list and OECD due-diligence documentation for tin, and battery-sourcing documentation for secondary lead. Because paper-metal fraud is a known risk in exchange metals, offers are worked against producer or warehouse documents and independent weighing, sampling and inspection at stuffing, not against a seller's word. Metal moves in strapped bundles, drums or bags, about 25 MT to a 20-foot container, on FOB, CFR and CIF terms.