(Updates with official prices) By Pratima Desai LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Copper prices recovered on Monday as hopes of easing trade tensions between the United States and China and stronger Chinese imports of the industrial metal lifted sentiment. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange traded 1.1% higher at $10,637.5 a metric ton in official rings after dropping more than 3% on Friday when President Donald Trump threatened sharply higher tariffs on Chinese imports. Expectations of copper shortages due to supply disruptions in Indonesia, Chile and the Democratic Republic of Congo, prospects of U.S. interest rate cuts and a weaker dollar have helped propel prices to 16-month highs at $11,000 a ton last week. Traders said optimism that Trump would scale back his rhetoric, as he has d

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