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Global leading copper importers 2022, by country
China was the world's leading copper importing country as of 2022 by a large margin, amounting to nearly 69 billion U.S. dollars in value. The U.S. came in a distant second place that year, with copper and copper article imports amounting to a total value of 15.6 billion U.S. dollars.