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INFOGRAPHIC: Covid-19’s impact on cobalt supply, trade flows
It has been almost one year since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak and global economies are still recovering from the fallout. Fastmarkets analyzes the effects of the pandemic on global cobalt supply and trade flows.
December 2, 2020
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Susan Zou
Cobalt
Global
Trade flows
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