China Aluminum Imports and Exports February 2012

Mar 22, 2012 13:26

Source:SMM

SHANGHAI, Mar. 22 -- The General Administration of Customs on Mar. 21 released China's imports and exports of primary aluminum, alumina, aluminum semis and bauxite in February 2012 (unit: mt):

	Feb.	YoY (%)	Jan.– Feb.	YoY (%)
Imports:
Primary Aluminum	74,484	317.25	122,607	136.88
Origins
Australia	22,280	300.45	29,164	72.66
Russia	21,483	109.39	48,896	61.81
Oman	12,210	2,991.10	19,409	931.26
India	4,017	-	8,141	-
The Kingdom of Bahrain	3,996	-	3,996	-
Iran	3,867	-	5,590	-
Malaysia	2,268	-	2,268	-
South Africa	2,164	33.79	2,311	11.49
The United Arab Emirates	1,168	-	1,189	5,376.10
North Korea	903	-	1,023	69.25
Taiwan (China)	99	881.45	385	1,172.89
China	25	1,188.66	25	1,200.21
Japan	3	93.51	4	70.26
Germany	2	-	2	-

aluminum alloy	7,585	22.47	15,269	-5.83
Origins
Taiwan (China)	1,880	16.93	3,358	-12.34
The United Arab Emirates	1,657	558.02	2,505	-0.70
China	1,334	32.14	2,248	-17.80
The US	839	141.03	1,406	80.98
South Korea	561	116.74	2,586	375.61
Russia	382	-72.27	631	-75.52
Japan	177	-9.00	361	11.13
Mexico	163	-	188	-
Malaysia	147	-54.10	246	-23.11
Australia	105	-73.51	206	-79.48
Venezuela	102	-	229	-
Nigeria	97	32.27	277	41.66
Mongolia	61	-	61	21.27
the Republic of Kyrgyzstan	56	-	168	-
Kazakhstan	10	-47.90	10	-47.90
South Africa	10	-53.65	132	109.10
Canada	4	-	4	-99.16
France	1	2.87	1	2.87
The UK	1	-79.53	1	-91.01

scrap aluminum	215,419	55.04	353,572	-3.88
Origins
Hong Kong	82,857	958.47	134,829	621.54
The US	59,163	114.96	105,112	38.85
Australia	14,326	-33.50	20,697	-64.87
Spain	13,860	-44.29	16,432	-77.86
Germany	7,091	6.22	13,186	-16.39
Malaysia	5,764	-76.71	8,193	-87.43
Canada	4,945	52.74	8,929	8.09
France	4,774	1.72	5,989	-4.25
Holland	4,612	765.16	8,738	80.41
The UK	3,438	108.00	7,068	42.04
Japan	2,706	39.54	5,209	50.91
Belgium	2,368	165.48	3,019	-10.07
Mexico	1,131	-53.79	2,851	-42.02
Denmark	1,126	805.99	1,865	1,400.67
South Korea	781	102.88	1,164	28.65
Portugal	688	-72.86	1,112	-81.23
Colombia	632	226.77	954	66.49
Greece	503	448.77	519	13.93
Finland	453	-	500	140.68
Ecuador	433	47.59	603	-8.03
Benin	347	522.37	347	-34.55
Italy	336	-	496	35.88
Bulgarian	283	476.70	512	15.68
Sweden	276	-38.35	473	-5.22
Macao	240	-	240	-
Dominican Republic	228	48.47	348	81.95
Chile	228	-13.21	350	1.81
Kuwait	227	-	764	-
Israel	221	408.15	346	104.68
Ireland	210	-	210	-
Peru	135	-48.17	320	-38.39
Honduras	127	460.85	309	179.77
New Zealand	120	-	308	17.33
The Republic of El Salvador	109	-	153	-
Taiwan (China)	88	-43.78	204	-45.24
The Philippines	74	-	170	95.37
Lebanon	74	-	74	65.65
South Africa	67	48.44	191	59.30
Costa Rica	62	-	83	323.03
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico	60	-	60	-57.01
Republic of Ghana	47	-	67	-
Georgia	46	-	46	-
The Republic of Panama	40	-	79	-
Cyprus	26	-	26	-
Norway	26	-	26	-93.50
The United Arab Emirates	21	-	46	497.93
Saudi Arabia	21	-	81	1.11
Slovenia	18	-	18	-
The Republic of Congo	14	-33.82	14	-46.85

alumina	275,938	22.78	722,586	27.35
Origins
Australia	266,473	19.42	679,885	20.78
Brazil	7,610	-	7,610	380,388.25
Japan	1,067	62.73	1,691	-2.48
France	426	-26.66	1,222	-30.55
The US	198	70.58	391	71.13
Germany	102	-43.56	206	-41.09
South Korea	48	2,249.09	68	441.08
North Korea	9	-	9	-
Taiwan (China)	4	2,196.47	5	-74.14
Malaysia	1	-	1	-
The UK	0	-	1	-
Denmark	-	-	1	312.50
Jamaica	-	-	31,495	-

Bauxite	4,665,855	112.26	7,781,576	51.80
Origins
Indonesia	3,807,598	160.92	6,216,656	65.16
Australia	809,557	41.04	1,470,906	40.75
Malaysia	48,699	-	93,995	-
Guyana	-	-	20	-75.00

aluminum semis	42,515	17.50	80,286	-9.40
Including
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	6,446	54.88	11,294	-0.83
Aluminum wire	588	-6.93	1,161	-16.18
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	29,561	10.28	57,101	-11.04
aluminum foil	4,447	33.15	7,560	-1.69
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	1,244	3.51	2,778	-26.42
Aluminum structure and components	442	34.30	707	2.12
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	0	-92.58	109	4,558.33

Exports:
Primary Aluminum	6,430	1,243.21	22,076	2,992.48
Destination
South Korea	5,916	3,211.65	21,244	11,659.90
Japan	500	80.11	542	18.37
Slovenia	12	-	12	-
North Korea	2	-	13	124.31
Hong Kong	-	-	215	-
Germany	-	-	33	-
Vietnam	-	-	17	-

aluminum alloy	40,974	27.61	85,120	-6.53
Destination
Japan	25,277	63.20	51,414	18.67
Hong Kong	5,622	-9.37	14,492	-26.64
South Korea	2,844	-34.09	4,205	-56.05
Indonesia	1,798	49.32	3,500	27.77
Malaysia	1,226	-2.21	2,776	-7.60
Vietnam	1,130	-25.24	2,717	-25.91
Australia	971	301.75	1,546	489.64
Thailand	814	111.16	1,634	33.81
The Philippines	586	-15.25	1,208	-16.19
Taiwan (China)	382	64.71	441	-46.33
Norway	100	-	250	-
Holland	75	-74.69	428	-60.39
Qatar	50	101.82	100	301.05
The US	32	101.46	57	-40.27
Argentina	27	-	27	-
Singapore	20	-0.16	40	-98.77
Iran	7	-	7	-
Turkey	4	-	9	47.54
Italy	4	-86.68	12	-66.58
Germany	3	-93.46	11	-76.80
Bulgarian	2	-	2	-

scrap aluminum	273	198.14	314	146.55
Destination
South Korea	273	198.14	314	146.64

alumina	676	-14.55	4,082	-7.08
Destination
The US	173	664.60	576	425.20
Vietnam	155	-21.81	243	-28.46
South Korea	76	-31.03	172	-92.48
Japan	69	-31.86	229	13.12
Thailand	49	4,820.00	138	51.75
Bangladesh	26	420.00	26	420.00
Malaysia	24	-50.57	27	-45.45
Italy	24	-	24	-
The Republic of Djibouti	22	4.32	47	-33.19
Indonesia	12	-86.27	46	-84.17
The Republic of Yemen	10	-	10	-
Myanmar	9	-	9	-
South Africa	6	-	6	-76.00
The UK	4	973.75	70	7,710.56
Singapore	4	-	9	115.35
Taiwan (China)	3	-93.63	57	-51.15
Mexico	3	-	4	-94.70

aluminum semis	190,000	30.30	400,000	7.00
Including
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	72,303	105.39	134,392	52.04
Aluminum wire	1,009	49.15	2,214	-1.30
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	75,242	-0.27	157,372	-14.46
aluminum foil	40,826	22.15	88,528	7.50
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	5,069	15.52	13,551	3.57
Aluminum structure and components	25,983	14.95	65,795	3.07
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	6,543	133.36	18,281	119.47
Note:“-”meansdataisunavailable.
(Source:ChinaCustoms)
(EditedbySMM)

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