The industrial metals were trading steady at the LME, underpinned by robust demand from top consumer China after September imports reached 18-month highs, but worries about a lack of progress on the United States' fiscal deadlock kept a lid on prices.
Tin climbed by Rs 5 per kg to Rs 1,585 from last Saturday's closing level of Rs 1,580.
Copper utensils scrap, brass sheet cutting and aluminium utensils scrap inched-up by a rupee per kg each to Rs 456, Rs 350 and Rs 124, respectively.