Copper Ingot, Billet & 8 mm CC Rod

Remelt copper ingot and billet by Cu content; 8 mm ETP, FRHC and oxygen-free rod by oxygen and % IACS

This page covers two different copper products that share a furnace but not a buyer. Remelt copper ingots and billets are copper scrap melted and cast to 20–25 kg ingots or to round and square billets, running from 96–99% Cu for ingot made from mixed and No.2 scrap up to 99.9% for ingot from bright scrap; they are feed for brass mills, bronze and copper-alloy foundries and master-alloy makers, bought on copper content and the lead, tin, iron and zinc that came with them, not on conductivity. 8 mm continuous-cast rod is drawing stock for wire and cable, and it is bought on conductivity. ETP rod to ASTM B49 or EN 1977 Cu-ETP, cast and rolled on SCR or Contirod lines from Grade A cathode, carries Cu + Ag ≥ 99.90%, oxygen up to 400 ppm (typically 150–350) and ≥ 100% IACS; oxygen-free rod from upcast lines carries Cu ≥ 99.95% with oxygen ≤ 10 ppm and goes to enamelled winding wire and fine drawing; FRHC rod to EN 1977 Cu-FRHC is made by fire-refining No.1 scrap (bare bright wire and heavy copper) back to ≥ 99.90% Cu. The rule a buyer should hold is this: rod for wire drawing normally needs cathode or fire-refined No.1 scrap as its feed. Rod cast from No.2 or mixed scrap without refining carries impurities that cut conductivity and break wire in fine drawing, so it belongs in non-electrical uses at a discount. Price is set off the LME copper reference — cathode rod at LME plus a conversion premium, FRHC rod close to or below it, remelt ingot at a discount that widens with falling Cu content. On the customs side, unwrought refined-copper ingot is declared under HS 7403.19 (7403.13 if cast as billets), straight bars and rods under 7407.10, and wire of refined copper over 6 mm in cross-section under 7408.11, which is where 8 mm rod in coils sits. On the trade, UN Comtrade 2025 export declarations under HS 7408 show Pakistan exporting only 208 MT of copper wire across 16 partners, 151 MT of it to the USA; declared values above USD 20,000/MT on that line point to fine or special wire rather than 8 mm drawing stock, and Pakistani rod is consumed largely by the domestic cable industry [inference]. Pakistan's own cathode comes in under HS 7403 — 12,604 MT in 2024 from Zambia (35.9%), China (20.9%), the DR Congo (14.5%) and Australia (8.6%) on UN Comtrade 2024 import declarations.

The buyers are wire and cable makers — building wire, power cable, enamelled winding wire for motors and transformers, earthing and bus conductors — and brass mills and copper-alloy foundries for ingot and billet, in the Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, East Africa and Turkiye. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers remelt copper ingot and billet and 8 mm ETP, FRHC and oxygen-free rod from producer and trader parcels in Pakistan, the UAE, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Turkiye and South Africa against third-party chemical analysis: a spectrometer certificate per heat for ingot and billet, and for rod the Cu + Ag assay, oxygen by inert-gas fusion and a conductivity test per coil lot, with independent inspection at stuffing where the buyer asks for it. Copper is container cargo — rod in 3–5 MT coils on wooden pallets, ingots strapped in bundles of about 1 MT, 24–25 MT to a 20-foot box, weight-limited well before it is full — on FOB, CFR and CIF terms, so freight is container freight booked with the line. Send the product, the Cu + Ag floor, oxygen and conductivity limits for rod or the Cu and impurity limits for ingot, the monthly tonnage and the discharge port, and the desk matches mill chemistry against them.

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Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.