China’s commodity imports are on the way down

China’s commodity imports fell back in April compared with a month earlier. This chimes with our view that imports of industrial commodities into China will come off the boil as economic growth there slows. In turn, this should be a factor dragging the prices of industrial metals lower by year-end.

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