期待已久的美国的经济复苏,虽然终于到来,但不能说明铜的需要量会如所预期的那样增长。铜出口国理事会国家,特别是智利,它们的产铜量在持续地增加,加之美国的停工的厂矿的恢复生产,使1983年铜的库存量大大增加。铜价在1983年的第四季度跌至很低,并且第一次低于铝的价格。 The long-awaited economic recovery in the United States, though finally coming, does not mean that the demand for copper will grow as expected. Copper Export Council countries, especially Chile, whose copper production is steadily increasing, coupled with the resumption of production in the United States of America’s shutdown of factories and mills, made the stock of copper in 1983 greatly increase. Copper prices fell very low in the fourth quarter of 1983, and for the first time below the price of aluminum.