Driven by optimism over prices and orders, traders placed many new import orders in January, and these cargoes arrived in March. US and UK sanctions on Russian metals bolstered LME aluminum prices in April, thereby lifting overseas aluminum alloy prices to above $2,400/mt. This caused import loss to expand to 700 yuan/mt, thus aluminum alloy ingot imports may decline.
![[Análisis de SMM] Los precios de la chatarra de aluminio en el Sudeste Asiático caen mientras el ADC12 sigue bajo presión ante la débil demanda.](https://imgqn.smm.cn/production/admin/votes/imageslvDRc20240314085754.png)
![Las exportaciones de ánodos precocidos muestran resiliencia de volumen y precio; la divergencia regional reconfigura el panorama [Análisis SMM]](https://imgqn.smm.cn/usercenter/tYQzs20251217171653.jpg)

