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Abstract
The future of the world's longest running commodity agreement now looks precarious. The withdrawal of the International Tin Council from the market has sparked a debacle that threatens the LME as centre for world minerals trading. Yet the event had been long expected and could perhaps have been prevented. In this paper Gill Burke gives the background to the crisis in tin.