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  "slug": "copper-trade",
  "kind": "flow",
  "title": "The routes that carry copper",
  "subtitle": "15 leading copper trade routes · 2024",
  "takeaway": "Chile → China: $20.9B, the largest retained route.",
  "period": "2024",
  "unit": "USD",
  "publisher": "CEPII BACI via Commodity Origins",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
  "licenseUrl": "https://commodityorigins.com/sources/",
  "attribution": "CEPII BACI; derived primary-HS-line corridor snapshot from Commodity Origins.",
  "retrievedAt": null,
  "vintage": "2026-10-10T22:48:06.733043+00:00",
  "method": "Ribbon widths are proportional to the USD value of the 15 retained leading exporter–importer routes. Together these represent 63.8% of the selected primary trade line's world value (851 total corridors). Node totals cover displayed routes only.",
  "notes": [
    "Primary HS line only: this is not all copper products or physical tonnage. Reporting year 2024; snapshot generated 2026-10-10. Acquisition date is not supplied by this derived snapshot.",
    "Other routes are omitted. Exports contain the same 15 routes used in the diagram; the linked snapshot contains broader commodity coverage."
  ],
  "explorer": "/patterns/trade-flows/",
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      "place": "Chile",
      "code": "CHL",
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      "destinationCode": "CHN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "20934604344",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Peru",
      "code": "PER",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Mongolia",
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      "place": "Kazakhstan",
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      "place": "DR Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)",
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