China Nickel Imports and Exports Data July 2015

SHANGHAI, Aug.25 (SMM) - The General Administration of China Customs released data of China's July imports and exports of nickel on Aug.21 (Unit: mt)

	Jul.	YoY (%)	Jan.– Jul.	YoY (%)
Imports:
Unwrought Nickel (Refined Nickel+Nickel Alloy)	47,473	167.85	152,194	62.41
Origins:
Russia	36,408	196.49	97,680	70.49
Canada	2,485	23.93	14,416	9.50
Mainland China	1,687	-	13,289	-
Australia	1,504	72.26	3,157	7.12
South Africa	1,402	-	5,360	28.99
Japan	1,267	36.54	7,957	57.18
Norway	876	570.91	3,546	8.33
Taiwan (China)	754	5,383,828.57	1,164	5.82
Madagascar	576	860.00	2,620	2,982.35
South Korea	402	20,161.52	467	5,118.24
The UK	88	-33.17	1,239	2.76
Finland	15	-98.81	589	-82.69
The US	5	-	11	-44.12
Belgium	3	-	26	42.10
Germany	1	-	4	-
Brazil	-	-100.00	670	-46.36

Nickel Ore	4,980,216	-1.85	19,585,755	-30.41
Origins:
The Philippines	4,913,641	-1.76	19,017,111	10.14
Australia	19,626	60.02	134,541	6.22
Finland	10,695	397.94	29,061	-19.24
Vietnam	10,465	3.99	53,474	53.19
Republic of Zimbabwe	9,905	67.50	32,583	-38.17
South Africa	9,857	-	9,858	615,225.03
Brazil	4,215	-33.62	43,293	67.54
The US	1,677	-	37,306	4,639.68
Malaysia	134	-	304	336.47
Papua New Guinea	-	-	40	-
Canada	-	-	34,047	3,966.91
Mexico	-	-	355	192.32
Russia	-	-	17,871	-
Thailand	-	-	591	-24.72
South Korea	-	-	74	-59.73
Indonesia	-	-100.00	101,410	-99.04
Spain	-	-	73,188	16.09
Belgium	-	-	5	-
Tanzania	-	-	644	-

ferronickel	59,115	215.75	379,573	138.98
Origins:
Indonesia	13,380	13,230.55	90,696	90,261.81
New Caledonia	10,643	53.96	59,399	65.00
Myanmar	8,565	169.66	46,945	132.94
Japan	6,387	190.12	46,093	29.33
Ukraine	5,902	-	10,771	-
Brazil	5,142	92.67	29,122	22.07
Colombia	4,956	133.89	40,449	22.31
Macedonia	2,858	102.98	26,715	184.52
The Republic of Guatemala	1,281	-	2,545	-
Australia	-	-	991	-
The US	-	-100.00	1	1,936.11
unknown	-	-	1,462	-
North Korea	-	-100.00	20	-90.25
Venezuela	-	-	2,637	-
South Korea	-	-100.00	17,297	24,784.23
Serbia	-	-	4,274	-
Taiwan (China)	-	-	76	-
The Philippines	-	-	77	-22.93

Exports:
Unwrought Nickel (Refined Nickel+Nickel Alloy)	2,404	-86.38	28,714	-54.31
Destination:
Taiwan (China)	645	-19.40	2,390	-24.66
Belgium	620	47.62	3,821	-22.96
Italy	140	-58.82	1,480	68.18
Turkey	71	5.52	348	-5.13
South Korea	56	-99.32	4,245	-51.69
Japan	54	170.88	356	-68.10
The US	43	-94.84	1,340	-64.87
Iran	36	-	56	2,807,200.00
Pakistan	26	141.05	92	117.45
Thailand	20	-	114	-26.75
Vietnam	9	-	111	300.94
Holland	-	-100.00	3,474	56.51
Indonesia	-	-	5	-
Hong Kong	-	-100.00	2,864	-79.89
Spain	-	-	720	-
France	-	-	20	-
Malaysia	-	-100.00	1,500	-87.27
The United Arab Emirates	-	-	325	32.33
The UK	-	-	1	100.00
The Philippines	-	-	25	-28.57

ferronickel	149	-82.24	5,449	-50.34
Destination:
Japan	149	-	451	37.03
South Korea	-	-100.00	4,998	-41.99

Note: “-” means data is unavailable.
(Source: China Customs)
(Edited by SMM)