{"id":238322,"date":"2026-01-14T22:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238322\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:43:14","slug":"dr-congo-to-send-us-first-copper-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/238322\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo to send US first copper shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DR Congo is set to send the US its first shipment of copper through a new venture backed by commodity giant Mercuria, as Kinshasa tries to broaden its pool of mining partners beyond Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Under a new contract announced on Monday DR Congo\u2019s state miner G\u00e9camines will ship <a href=\"https:\/\/mercuria.com\/gecamines-to-export-100000-tonnes-of-copper-to-the-united-states-with-support-from-mercuria\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">100,000 tons of copper from its Chinese-run Tenke Fungurume mine<\/a> to the US market. The move follows the signing of a strategic partnership between Washington and Kinshasa last month \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/strategic-partnership-agreement-between-the-government-of-the-united-states-of-america-and-the-government-of-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">to advance economic and resource security.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>G\u00e9camines said efforts to prioritize the US as a market was part of a push to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mercuria.com\/gecamines-to-export-100000-tonnes-of-copper-to-the-united-states-with-support-from-mercuria\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">regain its sovereignty<\/a>\u201d over DR Congo\u2019s mineral output, after decades in which marketing was mainly handled by foreign third parties such as commodities traders Glencore and Trafigura, alongside Chinese buyers and smelters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DR Congo is set to send the US its first shipment of copper through a new venture backed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-238322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}