China Nickel Imports and Exports Data December 2016

Published: Jan 23, 2017 16:14

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SHANGHAI, Jan.23 (SMM) - The General Administration of China Customs released data of China's December 2016 imports and exports of nickel on Jan.23 (Unit: mt)

	Dec.	YoY (%)	Jan.– Dec.	YoY (%)
Imports:
Unwrought Nickel (Refined Nickel+Nickel Alloy)	19,119	-47.64	370,728	22.18
Origins:
Russia	10,025	-61.49	228,151	17.52
Canada	2,804	-3.29	34,388	21.31
South Africa	1,265	-14.00	19,218	36.52
Mainland China	1,080	22.73	4,759	-71.83
Taiwan (China)	1,045	-24.60	4,400	-41.70
Finland	1,005	12,153.67	7,135	753.09
Japan	838	-5.53	13,980	-2.43
Madagascar	381	-38.65	8,543	53.23
Norway	361	-75.64	21,485	83.04
The UK	240	8.37	3,472	39.55
Australia	25	-95.91	21,191	280.49
The US	24	-	169	252.38
South Korea	12	3,536.36	1,583	234.57
Belgium	10	66.67	58	32.05
Germany	2	9,595.00	7	38.99

Nickel Ore	1,870,261	7.77	32,096,165	-9.01
Origins:
The Philippines	1,663,887	0.11	30,526,401	-10.95
New Caledonia	103,242	-	491,893	1,446,742,711.76
The Republic of Guatemala	56,180	-	171,580	-
Finland	14,451	38.42	34,182	-35.65
The US	13,497	-	38,699	-18.71
Russia	11,189	5.30	116,569	128.12
Australia	7,363	-49.82	149,471	-33.31
Malaysia	364	-	1,955	411.04
Tanzania	87	-89.95	1,364	-52.21

ferronickel	99,499	262.05	1,045,085	59.94
Origins:
Indonesia	64,779	2,274.80	747,097	249.37
Myanmar	13,693	1,582.08	33,639	-43.40
New Caledonia	9,377	70.66	97,619	-0.86
Brazil	4,263	-5.08	52,470	7.02
Japan	2,166	-69.22	27,426	-61.97
Colombia	1,994	44.44	49,384	-20.94
Serbia	1,476	-	1,476	-65.47
Dominican	728	-	2,620	-
The Republic of Guatemala	636	-53.60	8,039	-8.53
Ukraine	204	-53.04	1,353	-89.36
Dominican	156	-	156	-
Taiwan (China)	25	-	25	-67.91
Australia	3	-	4	-99.64
The US	0	-	4	340.45

Exports:
Unwrought Nickel (Refined Nickel+Nickel Alloy)	2,326	72.43	16,720	-58.84
Destination
Holland	1,400	-	1,400	-59.70
Italy	300	-	1,020	-60.47
India	278	-	804	-88.48
Taiwan (China)	120	-86.37	4,619	-32.63
Iran	60	204.01	535	367.83
South Korea	58	-52.95	1,072	-80.23
Thailand	37	-13.87	122	-34.17
Turkey	23	-49.88	94	-79.44
The US	22	-73.53	498	-72.81
Pakistan	17	-31.26	276	60.92
Indonesia	11	-	113	1,993.43
The UK	1	-	2	50.00
Japan	0	-99.89	50	-90.36

ferronickel	-	-	2,017	-62.98
Destination
South Korea	-	-	1,521	-69.57
Japan	-	-	496	10.01
Note: “-” means data is unavailable.
(Source: China Customs)
(Edited by SMM)

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