China Aluminum Imports and Exports Data April 2017

SHANGHAI,May.23 (SMM) - The General Administration of Customs May.23 released China's imports and exports of primary aluminum,alumina,aluminum semis and bauxite in April 2017 (unit: mt):

	Apr.	YoY (%)	Jan.– Apr.	YoY (%)
Imports:
Primary Aluminum	7,648	56.31	51,509	169.99
Origins:
Russia	2,253	349.73	4,254	632.82
Malaysia	1,509	903.70	11,975	1,678.14
Iran	1,199	-	2,198	-
New Zealand	903	92.52	4,363	-18.99
Oman	854	-62.30	3,981	-32.23
Australia	509	403.71	8,146	120.54
The United Arab Emirates	300	-52.20	1,340	14.94
Germany	70	84.96	79	-45.59
Saudi Arabia	40	230.53	119	873.30
Japan	9	-43.25	36	-35.21
South Korea	2	-24.22	9	-98.31
The US	1	17.33	1	-8.93
Taiwan (China)	0	-99.44	45	-58.92

aluminum alloy	4,193	2.48	18,934	16.51
Origins:
The United Arab Emirates	1,427	80.68	3,588	34.08
Taiwan (China)	864	86.68	3,274	10.31
Malaysia	583	457.91	2,511	188.15
South Korea	298	-1.11	2,332	3.63
Mainland China	231	-52.96	951	-38.07
Thailand	201	-36.51	805	154.68
Japan	125	-53.77	792	-15.15
Vietnam	121	-	317	144.57
Mongolia	120	-	139	-
The US	92	69.08	242	69.89
Canada	62	177.76	147	428.76
Venezuela	28	-	111	-
Holland	18	302,783.33	18	262,500.00
The UK	18	-	53	156.26
France	2	-87.50	9	-26.43
Kazakhstan	1	-92.00	63	31.07
Belgium	1	-0.20	1	-63.47
Germany	0	-	180	49.44

scrap aluminum	174,245	17.04	700,938	29.54
Origins:
The US	45,256	24.21	188,827	19.93
Australia	23,972	9.60	103,125	36.08
Thailand	23,160	3,231.42	56,184	1,939.88
Hong Kong	22,332	-49.31	95,647	-19.65
Malaysia	17,181	-0.89	98,882	40.61
The UK	14,723	72.26	55,931	100.78
Holland	7,419	41.63	22,989	10.26
The Philippines	4,476	22,237.37	12,597	13,022.49
Canada	3,722	341.09	8,784	15.14
Germany	3,008	119.23	8,932	-54.33
Sweden	1,677	25.94	6,198	42.29
Belgium	1,650	-18.33	13,570	74.95
Spain	1,251	-24.77	5,850	93.41
Italy	908	220.47	3,085	46.22
Japan	736	-39.29	3,890	-10.87
France	575	-56.39	4,483	0.86
Singapore	324	4.95	1,426	77.20
South Korea	299	-37.80	1,679	-9.43
New Zealand	274	529.35	700	61.91
Colombia	229	-0.18	751	27.58
Slovenia	189	-	189	-
Vietnam	126	-	447	-
Chile	105	27.95	177	-22.00
Greece	103	-	103	-
Mongolia	101	-	151	25.37
Macao	101	-4.03	171	37.57
Indonesia	99	-0.85	441	36.74
Taiwan (China)	96	-83.84	609	-63.67
Denmark	78	-86.24	907	-34.99
Costa Rica	21	-	21	-
Poland	20	-	89	-
Norway	20	-97.95	1,408	-44.27
The Republic of Guatemala	17	-	56	-

alumina	252,569	146.05	1,173,692	-12.57
Origins:
Australia	123,672	26.69	524,787	-34.49
Vietnam	82,561	-	195,599	43.73
Indonesia	35,210	5,233.07	232,681	16,053.68
Jamaica	3,998	-	68,984	-
India	2,336	389.73	124,802	2.75
France	1,861	257.07	6,438	59.27
Germany	1,702	60.02	5,793	41.39
Japan	948	-41.30	5,779	9.46
South Korea	180	268.50	389	0.13
The US	84	-53.95	8,064	-78.30
Canada	8	-	215	216.67
Belgium	3	-	3	-
Hungary	2	-80.12	9	-66.74
Mainland China	2	-50.34	9	-23.33
Italy	2	-	8	130.30
Holland	1	-	7	-

Bauxite	5,584,776	27.46	19,502,622	9.47
Origins:
Guinea	2,336,482	161.30	7,173,535	177.23
Australia	1,443,748	-32.25	7,339,495	19.90
Malaysia	622,943	0.37	1,756,409	-64.16
India	327,863	-39.14	947,091	-67.20
Brazil	257,703	356.86	1,060,059	70.85
Republic of Ghana	184,050	30.90	382,011	5.25
The Republic of Montenegro	145,165	-	264,008	-
Solomon Islands	105,719	-	368,616	-
Fiji	58,710	-	58,710	-
Vietnam	51,839	-	102,053	-
Sierra Leone	50,535	-	50,535	-
Japan	20	-	100	-

aluminum semi-finished products	30,726	6.80	122,457	2.40
Including:
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	4,284	-16.36	17,132	-16.54
Aluminum wire	1,076	28.27	3,815	18.62
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	19,887	16.11	79,863	7.82
aluminum foil	4,541	-5.65	17,620	-3.72
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	854	24.91	3,588	22.76

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	393	6.35	1,766	31.20
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	20	78.51	37	-10.77

Exports:
Primary Aluminum	706	366.50	1,384	-89.70
Destination:
Hong Kong	502	-	502	-
Japan	183	333.22	729	413.38
North Korea	20	142.29	77	345.52
Australia	1	35,800.00	1	-14.95

aluminum alloy	45,117	3.37	162,104	-0.31
Destination:
Japan	30,725	27.06	108,206	46.87
Hong Kong	6,740	-36.84	27,508	-49.59
Vietnam	1,602	-32.32	5,759	-26.18
Taiwan (China)	1,598	2.36	4,486	-17.93
Thailand	1,215	-27.75	4,807	-13.38
Indonesia	1,197	302.60	1,848	163.24
Australia	653	34.48	2,809	-0.76
South Korea	395	8.98	1,058	-40.13
The Philippines	178	119.75	789	26.81
India	159	-52.18	486	-74.09
Norway	124	27.90	587	-8.80
Mexico	119	-80.50	472	-83.22
Brazil	101	-40.25	636	-43.13
Russia	64	37.66	185	218.63
The US	56	-58.35	223	-3.05
Bangladesh	31	1,730.41	31	1,730.41
Spain	29	891.11	97	3,198.02
South Africa	25	-49.50	133	83.69
Holland	25	-79.89	402	-50.16
Pakistan	20	870.40	184	116.89
The United Arab Emirates	20	-87.50	360	-41.94
The Republic of Angola	13	-	13	-
Saudi Arabia	13	-	13	-54.38
Turkey	7	-	40	32.18
Italy	5	-	50	10.08
Malaysia	2	-86.01	526	107.60
Oman	1	-	21	-
Iraq	1	-	1	-

scrap aluminum	54	-28.70	224	35.29
Destination:


Pakistan	1	-	1	-30.70

alumina	6,509	-63.97	19,459	-50.37
Destination
Australia	2,674	-	2,705	10,286.54
South Korea	2,135	81.98	0	38.04
The US	349	57.53	1,264	9.60
Vietnam	269	160.51	847	144.84
Belgium	150	1,319.39	160	408.53
South Africa	139	-	149	1,065.62
Taiwan (China)	106	3.99	795	46.04
Japan	92	-73.90	1,525	102.07
Malaysia	92	-3.69	301	6.92
Bangladesh	85	16.20	190	-25.41
The UK	52	948.60	68	48.24
The Kingdom of Bahrain	50	-	150	-
Iran	45	60.85	371	-96.43
Indonesia	42	497.14	94	-52.16
Turkey	38	11,639.13	42	12,881.37
Russia	33	-31.43	306	-15.18
India	30	449.27	172	-50.66
Spain	22	-	86	180.52
Madagascar	21	-	39	-
Italy	15	-94.40	75	-79.40
Uzbekistan	12	-95.73	83	-71.24
The Republic of Sudan	11	-	11	-
Pakistan	10	300.00	67	34.51
Germany	9	-60.90	33	-41.40
The Philippines	7	-	8	297.47
France	5	-81.42	48	-4.28
The United Arab Emirates	5	73.33	27	202.87
Canada	2	-88.52	51	-43.43
Congo	2	-	2	-
Hungary	2	-3.23	3	-60.47
Thailand	2	5,065.00	50	-11.08
Saudi Arabia	2	-	56	14.10
Hong Kong	1	99,900.00	9	67.41
Singapore	1	-98.98	3	-95.84

aluminum semi-finished products	380,000	8.10	1,330,000	2.00
Including
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	66,211	-37.91	251,237	-34.31
Aluminum wire	2,185	13.95	7,191	0.65
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	200,308	40.50	637,686	19.91
aluminum foil	103,911	11.38	386,725	13.95
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	11,554	6.37	41,801	7.59

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	73,216	17.21	275,043	20.28
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	24,544	66.14	76,501	34.00
Note: “-” means data is unavailable.
(Source: China Customs)
(Edited by SMM)