Refined Copper, Aluminium, Zinc, Lead, Tin, Nickel & Minor Metals

CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers refined non-ferrous metals that are bought on purity, brand and paperwork: copper cathode (LME Grade A to BS EN 1978 Cu-CATH-1 and ASTM B115 Grade 1) for rod mills and cable makers, primary aluminium ingot (P1020A, 99.7% Al) for extruders, rolling mills and alloy plants, 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, plus magnesium ingot (99.8%+ Mg) for alloying and desulphurisation and antimony ingot and trioxide for flame retardants and battery alloys. Exchange metals are priced off the LME reference, magnesium and antimony are negotiated per MT, plus a premium for brand, form and delivery region, with LME-registered brands above off-brand metal. The 2024 export declarations sum to USD 60.94 billion for refined copper cathodes (HS 7403.11), USD 26.05 billion for unalloyed unwrought aluminium (HS 7601.10), 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. Copper cathode offers are checked against the LME brand list and confirmed with the producer, with no advance payment against copies. 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.