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Inventories (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Inventories. |
Schedule of Inventory |
|  | 2018 |  | 2017
|  | US$'000 |  | US$'000
Finished goods |  | 197,982 |  | 158,431
Raw materials in progress and industrial supplies |  | 222,912 |  | 177,728
Other inventories |  | 34,887 |  | 24,902
Advances to suppliers |  | 1,189 |  | 170
Total |  | 456,970 |  | 361,231

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