(Repeats story publishd late Friday; no changes to text)
TOKYO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - An aluminium producer has offered Japanese buyers a premium of $120 per tonne for January-March primary metal shipments, up 33 percent from the previous quarter, three sources involved in quarterly pricing talks said on Friday.
Japan is Asia's biggest importer of the metal and the premiums for primary metal shipments it agrees to pay each quarter over the London Metal Exchange (LME) cash price CMAL0 set the benchmark for the region.
For the October-December quarter, Japanese buyers mostly agreed to pay a premium of $90 per tonne PREM-ALUM-JP , down 10 percent from the prior quarter. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL3N1203RJ
The latest quarterly pricing negotiations began this week between Japanese buyers and miners including Rio Tinto Ltd RIO.AX RIO.L , Alcoa Inc (N:AA) AA.N and South32 Ltd S32.AX , and are expected to continue next month.