China Aluminum Imports and Exports Data February 2017

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

	Feb.	YoY (%)	Jan.– Feb.	YoY (%)
Imports:
Primary Aluminum	6,869	58.93	33,925	212.77
Origins:
Malaysia	2,489	567.65	7,468	1,327.56
Australia	1,328	10.18	6,045	100.73
South Africa	751	-	2,053	-
Russia	711	791.93	1,218	1,429.01
Nigeria	546	-	682	736.93
Oman	511	-55.61	2,107	-13.01
India	326	-	5,568	5,423.52
The United Arab Emirates	174	-	534	-0.90
Saudi Arabia	15	-	35	-
Japan	12	51.95	14	3.47
Germany	5	-	5	-93.65
South Korea	2	-	4	94.10

aluminum alloy	6,173	151.84	10,271	25.93
Origins:
Australia	2,093	1,970.47	2,295	9.38
The United Arab Emirates	1,333	1,471.53	1,994	344.03
Malaysia	627	79.01	1,436	142.64
South Korea	559	-0.51	851	-40.02
Taiwan (China)	307	-50.99	1,501	8.16
Thailand	304	-	304	-
Japan	240	29.90	394	-10.46
Mainland China	219	-36.73	493	-31.16
Russia	106	-	106	0.47
The US	84	453.48	110	320.10
Venezuela	82	-	82	-
The Arab Republic of Egypt	78	48.18	78	48.18
Germany	68	504.83	175	44.93
Laos	54	-	54	-
Kazakhstan	13	26.26	23	1.88
France	7	3,566.84	8	4,065.79

scrap aluminum	167,988	80.09	339,243	48.90
Origins:
The US	49,215	53.92	99,693	37.78
Malaysia	24,901	146.30	51,385	103.97
Australia	23,482	105.13	53,002	76.90
Hong Kong	22,110	18.35	45,441	8.03
The UK	14,785	179.01	27,894	134.85
Thailand	10,601	5,572.80	15,708	924.46
Holland	5,183	109.71	10,015	36.85
The Philippines	3,548	19,337.37	4,360	5,639.60
Belgium	2,859	90.77	7,407	76.75
Canada	2,072	-10.09	3,558	-29.02
Germany	1,467	-67.48	3,498	-78.22
Italy	1,046	881.38	1,445	116.99
France	1,003	54.77	2,513	49.57
Spain	947	922.72	2,777	405.16
Sweden	649	65.44	2,621	56.05
Japan	605	-48.76	1,648	-16.71
South Korea	562	751.69	771	42.77
Mexico	376	-43.19	533	-29.72
Finland	318	-	425	100.04
Singapore	317	176.92	628	132.73
Denmark	254	43.55	498	1.72
New Zealand	253	184.22	304	-17.03
Estonia	237	-	237	-
Norway	218	-57.24	1,046	-5.53
Vietnam	179	-	227	-
Ecuador	156	-23.79	202	-61.52
Brazil	94	-	94	-
Colombia	83	-35.73	328	38.77
Taiwan (China)	72	66.28	250	-50.09
Peru	71	-2.88	117	59.33
Macao	71	-	71	257.47
Dominican	63	-	63	39.22
Paraguay	50	-	50	88.81
Indonesia	49	-34.27	244	98.59
Poland	47	-	47	-
Chile	25	-60.25	47	-43.15
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico	19	-	19	-

alumina	234,524	-37.02	500,289	-43.14
Origins:
Australia	99,186	-48.11	246,319	-55.24
Jamaica	40,386	-	40,386	-
Vietnam	32,311	-20.27	45,741	-33.44
Indonesia	30,061	149,868.00	60,096	12,962.26
India	28,261	-7.10	91,559	199.61
Japan	1,411	33.59	3,011	33.51
France	1,365	109.91	2,514	45.19
Germany	1,341	89.16	2,321	29.54
The US	81	-99.73	7,845	-74.44
Canada	64	22,757.86	199	193.40
South Korea	48	851.17	162	397.51
Hungary	7	-22.21	7	-22.21
Mainland China	1	-80.00	4	-40.85

Bauxite	4,258,174	34.42	8,852,894	5.72
Origins:
Australia	1,878,096	77.63	4,018,491	77.90
Guinea	1,335,567	313.62	2,977,735	293.95
Malaysia	466,928	-50.15	655,172	-78.22
India	248,686	-56.08	299,638	-82.10
Brazil	155,223	2.21	483,799	50.64
Republic of Ghana	62,746	-20.55	91,138	-43.61
Montenegro	61,328	-	118,843	-
Solomon Islands	49,560	-	157,785	-
Japan	40	-	80	-

aluminum semi-finished products	31,452	36.50	58,192	-1.90
Including:
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	3,782	0.89	7,577	-19.66
Aluminum wire	864	16.11	1,769	33.56
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	21,403	51.19	38,732	0.42
aluminum foil	4,481	20.20	8,135	-2.36
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	858	42.98	1,790	25.57

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	572	199.61	1,037	102.94
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	1	-94.80	5	-81.56

Exports:
Primary Aluminum	50	-98.31	234	-97.11
Destination:
North Korea	29	-	29	-
Japan	20	904.70	203	231.94

aluminum alloy	29,133	22.11	71,811	3.81
Destination:
Japan	19,503	114.91	46,354	97.13
Hong Kong	4,907	-43.94	13,195	-57.59
Vietnam	977	2.86	2,773	-5.40
Taiwan (China)	733	-10.18	1,869	-23.13
Australia	647	-12.02	1,671	0.03
Thailand	599	-35.16	2,160	15.11
South Korea	405	368.64	564	-36.41
Malaysia	311	-	511	212.60
Brazil	198	-27.26	425	55.73
Norway	173	-22.90	316	5.67
Mexico	117	-87.35	215	-80.88
The Philippines	89	-9.11	490	75.21
The United Arab Emirates	80	300.00	160	-33.33
Russia	62	-	82	832.92
The Kingdom of Bahrain	55	-	105	109.44
Holland	50	-80.18	201	-60.11
India	48	-73.37	226	-77.17
Indonesia	41	-79.74	46	-79.36
Pakistan	41	724.14	120	48.34
Spain	36	-	44	-
South Africa	25	-	81	-
Italy	22	-	45	50.00
Syria	15	-	15	-

scrap aluminum	34	-	118	361.94
Destination:
Japan	34	-	69	-

alumina	2,038	54.79	7,424	-51.60
Destination
Japan	808	962.00	933	178.30
The US	314	-6.86	0	1.74
Taiwan (China)	229	138.01	461	66.86
South Korea	196	24.55	2,353	4.70
Vietnam	115	53.23	329	100.70
Malaysia	85	164.56	134	5.84
Russia	70	-57.00	238	12.51
Iran	35	-	280	-97.27
Indonesia	31	-11.43	52	-70.96
Canada	30	-	31	-33.78
Pakistan	25	227,172.73	56	24.41
Spain	22	980.00	43	163.41
Holland	12	-45.45	13	-76.36
Italy	12	-50.00	12	-50.00
The UK	10	-34.60	15	-57.45
India	9	-72.95	104	-50.04
Belgium	9	-	9	84.00
Djibouti	7	-	7	-
Myanmar	6	-	18	5,928.67
Portugal	3	-47.60	3	-47.60
Poland	3	-	6	-
Uzbekistan	3	-	6	360.12
Singapore	2	-37.23	2	-50.82
Hungary	2	-50.00	2	-66.67
The Philippines	1	-	1	-54.55
The United Arab Emirates	1	-	17	337.00

aluminum semi-finished products	230,000	-10.30	580,000	-1.50
Including
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	29,525	-58.81	118,948	-30.91
Aluminum wire	955	-30.67	3,011	-10.40
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	118,393	13.11	260,838	9.02
aluminum foil	75,298	4.66	174,634	14.65
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	6,258	-15.18	18,470	1.15

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	44,424	3.70	125,861	14.77
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	9,933	-38.67	35,383	8.37
Note: “-” means data is unavailable.
(Source: China Customs)
(Edited by SMM)