Trade Increase Tin is Diverted to Great Brtiain London,' July 30.
AL the commencement of trading on the London Metal Exchange. to the chairman of the committee announced that 905 tons of Belgian tin brought from Marseilles before. the German occupation were now being offered on the open market on behalf fof the Customs. Fund.
Although a large portion of the tin was marked this morning, values proved on market absorption in. antilpation of demand from the United States. United States interests. are paying higher prices. in London than the minimum stipulated in the Anglo-American metals reserve agreement.
Further arrivals of 250. tons Straits tin diverted from France are expected soon.
'Meanwhile, the 'Tin Producers' Association serts that no signatory country ly capable of producing the 130 per cent. quota, while nonsignatories are incapable of much expansion.
For the year ending June, 1941, the Association estimates. the output of the undermentioned countries as follows:
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