China Aluminum Imports and Exports Data Aug. 2017

SHANGHAI,Sep.26 (SMM) - The General Administration of Customs Sep.26 released China's imports and exports of primary aluminum,alumina,aluminum semis and bauxite in Aug. 2017 (unit: mt):

	Aug.	YoY (%)	Jan.– Aug.	YoY (%)
Imports:
Primary Aluminum	7,706	-20.67	85,436	34.55
Origins:
Malaysia	1,559	74.17	19,942	460.63
Iran	1,356	35.67	7,559	23.05
Russia	1,220	54.86	10,048	233.60
Oman	1,132	340.31	7,825	-18.76
Australia	1,097	15.07	10,927	31.20
New Zealand	844	-51.66	8,098	-36.73
South Africa	376	-25.16	3,307	558.88
Germany	50	-9.85	237	-33.98
Nigeria	27	-0.80	1,273	234.87
Japan	22	35.08	144	38.38
Taiwan (China)	21	1.31	77	-67.97
South Korea	2	70.48	17	-96.76
The US	0	-88.20	2	-34.76

aluminum alloy	5,565	48.86	40,596	8.41
Origins:
The United Arab Emirates	1,162	115.34	9,338	63.06
Taiwan (China)	1,041	37.51	8,069	30.71
South Korea	1,029	543.05	4,676	57.30
Malaysia	429	-20.99	4,803	112.51
Russia	357	35,627.00	1,192	71.79
Mainland China	292	4.35	1,945	-38.54
Japan	267	-9.38	2,178	17.92
Mongolia	203	-	659	153.00
Indonesia	200	-0.19	399	-58.19
Germany	189	154.49	582	58.65
South Africa	93	4,225.65	259	77.29
Vietnam	81	7.16	858	159.00
Italy	69	-	130	-
Canada	42	-	276	270.98
The US	41	-41.10	444	33.50
The UK	26	18.86	97	-11.58
Hong Kong	20	-	20	-15.95
Kazakhstan	15	14.86	107	-0.31
Cameroon	8	-	8	-
Holland	0	-	49	8,244.35

scrap aluminum	171,008	-12.24	1,410,343	15.30
Origins:
The US	47,121	-17.88	377,651	5.43
Hong Kong	31,226	-9.45	205,858	-16.69
Thailand	21,519	1,730.73	144,077	2,016.90
Australia	17,971	-48.85	193,482	-0.84
The Philippines	12,907	968.07	47,786	2,958.81
The UK	9,864	-16.25	107,237	59.91
Malaysia	8,952	-69.02	170,855	-3.14
Canada	6,522	68.81	28,405	57.48
Germany	2,923	44.13	16,428	-39.42
Holland	2,490	-57.70	35,217	-11.37
Belgium	1,596	-35.06	19,231	0.44
Japan	1,415	20.24	8,739	-6.49
Mexico	1,245	150.05	3,596	39.92
Italy	866	57.41	6,697	29.64
Sweden	851	-64.14	9,950	-1.41
South Korea	636	4.69	3,641	-11.90
Taiwan (China)	625	40.63	2,120	-31.56
France	417	-73.20	6,948	-18.20
Denmark	396	830.78	1,792	-14.77
Spain	351	-9.25	7,178	26.83
Singapore	260	-13.16	2,575	54.04
Norway	258	-74.30	2,258	-58.38
Mongolia	155	407.41	456	4.06
Brazil	152	-	347	-19.58
New Zealand	146	169.46	1,651	65.10
Swiss	105	-	105	-
Greece	22	-4.56	167	108.13
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico	20	-	288	-

alumina	287,138	123.07	1,958,472	-3.39
Origins:
Australia	146,210	51.80	870,372	-32.93
Vietnam	81,230	-	343,857	60.13
Indonesia	52,478	86.72	433,755	1,338.86
Japan	2,012	5.57	12,330	4.42
Germany	1,847	58.37	12,743	26.53
France	1,771	155.52	13,670	96.11
India	1,083	187.79	190,015	2.67
South Korea	261	325.40	1,199	0.96
The US	212	294.93	8,708	-76.75
Canada	28	-	301	105.59
Taiwan (China)	4	15,908.00	15	-69.49
Portugal	1	-	1	1,150.00
The UK	1	-	5	3,428.17
Mainland China	0	-99.97	992	4,912.79

Bauxite	6,529,391	47.12	44,631,031	34.39
Origins:
Guinea	2,784,796	180.32	17,675,315	175.57
Australia	2,307,554	3.13	15,917,784	14.60
Malaysia	549,995	9.83	4,545,194	-22.37
Brazil	527,617	22.92	2,172,449	-8.33
Solomon Islands	155,250	-	857,814	-
Indonesia	97,658	-	147,953	-
India	54,628	-26.76	1,858,674	-46.35
Republic of Ghana	49,183	-37.01	510,346	-20.93
Guyana	2,671	-	3,427	29.79
Japan	40	-	210	-

aluminum semi-finished products	34,407	-2.40	257,847	2.00
Including:
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	4,776	3.24	36,761	-5.68
Aluminum wire	948	-15.01	7,658	1.72
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	22,381	-3.12	166,437	3.84
aluminum foil	5,328	-3.69	39,195	0.23
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	846	11.08	6,816	16.91

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	620	45.12	3,852	39.99
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	3	-92.42	87	-9.79

Exports:
Primary Aluminum	240	-69.46	10,892	-33.72
Destination:
Taiwan (China)	158	57,955.51	3,357	-44.92
Japan	61	205.48	1,157	396.29
The US	20	-	24	206.40
The Republic of Sudan	-	-100.00	10	13.35
Cuba	-	-	4	46.27
Australia	-	-100.00	1	-85.54
The Arab Republic of Egypt	-	-	2	-
Hong Kong	-	-	3,378	-
North Korea	-	-100.00	232	216.09
Bangladesh	-	-	69	-
South Korea	-	-100.00	2,657	-73.07

aluminum alloy	49,652	14.00	363,157	11.20
Destination:
Japan	27,619	15.25	226,740	37.86
Hong Kong	8,035	-4.33	62,518	-28.92
Thailand	4,234	151.08	16,410	19.15
South Korea	2,066	-11.28	5,797	-33.05
Indonesia	1,685	164.18	5,872	217.64
Vietnam	1,634	-9.27	13,158	-13.67
Taiwan (China)	1,568	52.48	10,362	17.93
Australia	908	-14.93	9,887	46.78
Malaysia	464	294.51	1,869	56.88
The Philippines	342	6.57	2,054	11.14
Norway	222	51.68	1,274	28.85
India	130	-87.74	1,273	-72.46
Holland	126	-46.39	806	-49.22
The United Arab Emirates	120	100.00	1,026	-4.01
Algeria	103	-	103	-
Russia	101	-	465	611.55
Mexico	99	23.32	827	-74.09
Brazil	98	-69.78	1,056	-54.05
South Africa	40	47.57	201	34.74
The US	30	-62.73	443	3.39
Turkey	14	-44.06	65	-28.93
Iran	10	25.00	101	676.92
Italy	6	-65.12	97	-26.93
Pakistan	1	-	191	47.58
Myanmar	1	66.67	11	-66.40
Spain	1	-	109	232.01
Canada	0	-	14	-26.69

scrap aluminum	17	-67.48	363	-4.26
Destination:
Japan	17	-55.43	311	7.13
Turkey	-	-	45	60.71
Vietnam	-	-	2	-
India	-	-	4	-
Pakistan	-	-	1	-30.70

alumina	7,093	69.38	37,545	-31.47
Destination
South Korea	3,251	1,938.09	12,810	45.32
Japan	1,083	171.12	6,772	124.20
The US	367	4.41	2,744	19.17
Australia	300	-	3,008	6,021.34
North Korea	298	-85.46	2,049	-67.74
Indonesia	251	2,180.00	410	86.53
Russia	244	405.65	834	-3.30
Vietnam	236	2.63	1,461	36.34
Bangladesh	178	-	432	27.44
India	131	-50.60	679	-22.33
Iran	127	-60.48	579	-94.76
Taiwan (China)	112	-22.74	1,632	17.32
Canada	92	251.17	253	6.06
Nigeria	81	-	189	-56.40
Malaysia	72	58.30	491	0.37
Thailand	59	32.59	247	116.88
Spain	41	-	128	49.56
Tanzania	37	-	37	-
The UK	31	222.61	195	186.17
Italy	26	8.32	146	-71.50
Germany	23	4,515.00	190	88.22
France	23	28,755.00	95	29.69
Turkey	6	21.80	608	1,925.95
Portugal	4	34.17	13	9.40
Cambodia	3	-	5	-
Saudi Arabia	3	-	130	150.10
Belgium	2	-79.95	181	61.71
Pakistan	2	-	97	-29.11
The United Arab Emirates	2	-	89	580.30
Holland	2	108.00	58	-62.87
Nigeria	1	-	1	-
Albania	1	-	1	-
Zambia	1	70.00	1	-8.60
Hong Kong	1	2,905.56	13	140.84
The Czech Republic	0	-	1	650.00
Lithuania	0	-	1	-
Slovenia	0	-	1	-90.44
Republic of Ghana	0	-	47	-
Swiss	0	-	1	-
Hungary	0	-93.33	8	-29.24

aluminum semi-finished products	360,000	-3.20	2,880,000	5.20
Including:
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	75,227	-29.00	555,186	-30.17
Aluminum wire	2,260	15.86	16,543	11.65
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	175,010	15.08	1,417,151	27.03
aluminum foil	93,400	-4.92	794,907	10.12
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	11,507	6.31	89,942	8.53

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	73,835	6.49	580,063	17.00
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	9,300	-34.04	136,759	17.98
Note: “-” means data is unavailable.
(Source: China Customs)
(Edited by SMM)