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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Chinese Billionaire Linked to Giant Aluminum Stockpile in Mexican Desert

U.S. aluminum executives claim Liu Zhongtian, founder of Chinese metals conglomerate China Zhongwang, used a factory in Mexico to game the global trade system

An aerial view of the aluminum stockpile around Aluminicaste Fundición de México’s San José Iturbide plant in June 2016. Illustration: Mike Rapport


By Scott Patterson in Los Angeles, John W. Miller in San José Iturbide, Mexico, and Chuin-Wei Yap in Liaoning, China
September 9, 2016

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Two years ago, a California aluminum executive commissioned a pilot to fly over the Mexican town of San José Iturbide, at the foot of the Sierra Gorda mountains, and snap aerial photos of a remote desert factory.

He made a startling discovery. Nearly one million metric tons of aluminum sat neatly stacked behind a fortress of barbed-wire fences. The stockpile, worth some $2 billion and representing roughly 6% of the world’s total inventory—enough to churn out 2.2 million Ford F-150s or 77 billion beer cans—quickly became an obsession for the U.S. aluminum industry.

Now it is a new source of tension in U.S.-Chinese trade relations. U.S. executives contend that the mysterious cache was part of a brazen scheme by one of China’s richest men to game the global trade system.

READ MORE: http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-billionaire-linked-to-giant-aluminum-stockpile-in-mexican-desert-1473356054


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