SHANGHAI - China remained a net importer of aluminium for a second consecutive month, with August imports surging eight-fold from the same month a year earlier, customs data showed, as traders took advantage of lower overseas prices.

Imports of unwrought aluminium and aluminium products into China, the world's biggest producer and consumer of the metal, came to an over 11-year high of 429,464 tonnes last month, the General Administration of Customs said on Wednesday.

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