China Aluminum Imports and Exports Data May 2017

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

	May.	YoY (%)	Jan.– May.	YoY (%)
Imports:
Primary Aluminum	8,917	350.31	60,426	186.94
Origins:
Malaysia	3,389	-	15,364	2,181.36
Russia	2,121	-	6,376	998.17
Oman	990	522.07	4,971	-17.61
New Zealand	896	157.69	5,258	-8.28
Australia	518	-24.30	8,664	97.90
Iran	383	-	2,581	-
The United Arab Emirates	297	0.63	1,637	12.05
Nigeria	268	393.00	1,059	289.08
Germany	34	-54.29	114	-48.53
Japan	14	14.56	50	-25.99
Taiwan (China)	5	-87.72	51	-66.82
South Korea	2	-37.58	11	-97.93
The US	0	-27.86	1	-10.78
The Kingdom of Bahrain	-	-	3,369	-
India	-	-100.00	5,568	496.99
South Africa	-	-	2,328	-
Saudi Arabia	-	-100.00	119	297.26
Qatar	-	-	2,904	-

aluminum alloy	4,801	8.55	23,734	14.80
Origins:
The United Arab Emirates	1,131	-30.45	4,719	9.69
Taiwan (China)	962	94.14	4,236	22.31
Malaysia	790	270.76	3,302	204.38
South Korea	357	77.11	2,689	9.67
Japan	291	30.99	1,083	-6.27
Mainland China	209	-60.52	1,160	-43.82
Australia	207	-32.83	2,602	3.79
Indonesia	200	98.43	200	-43.61
Vietnam	198	-	515	297.36
Germany	134	223.76	315	94.06
Russia	105	-21.83	420	21.52
Georgia	72	-	72	-
The US	60	-36.37	302	27.38
The Arab Republic of Egypt	46	-54.48	387	150.41
Canada	21	-	168	502.78
Holland	9	-	27	390,928.57
The UK	8	-69.79	61	29.28
Kazakhstan	1	-93.23	64	1.50
Mongolia	-	-	139	-
Venezuela	-	-100.00	111	94.55
South Africa	-	-100.00	118	-17.85
Niger	-	-	165	-
Laos	-	-	54	-
Italy	-	-	12	-
France	-	-	9	-26.43
Thailand	-	-100.00	805	91.34

scrap aluminum	188,609	26.15	889,546	28.80
Origins:
The US	50,711	41.91	239,538	24.00
Hong Kong	26,764	-33.85	122,412	-23.25
Thailand	26,365	4,030.38	82,549	2,333.20
Australia	26,233	16.87	129,358	31.69
Malaysia	21,072	-13.32	119,954	26.76
The UK	15,980	126.82	71,911	106.04
Canada	4,546	137.20	13,329	39.64
Holland	3,281	-38.67	26,270	0.27
The Philippines	2,740	13,247.79	15,338	13,062.18
Italy	1,339	35.92	4,424	42.94
Belgium	1,191	-35.25	14,761	53.83
Japan	1,051	13.89	4,942	-6.55
France	1,048	18.10	5,531	3.73
Germany	960	-47.03	9,893	-53.71
Spain	712	-19.10	6,562	68.06
Sweden	699	-34.54	6,897	27.17
Mexico	640	163.29	1,503	8.65
South Korea	517	-18.57	2,195	-11.76
Colombia	466	58.92	1,216	38.00
New Zealand	355	553.80	1,055	116.79
Taiwan (China)	310	-30.12	919	-56.64
Norway	308	-42.16	1,715	-43.90
Denmark	271	44.53	1,177	-25.58
Singapore	231	53.98	1,657	73.54
Finland	158	511.04	645	120.90
Macao	151	243.90	323	91.41
Mongolia	150	0.79	301	11.77
Brazil	101	101.65	195	-30.30
The Republic of El Salvador	69	-	116	29.69
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico	60	-	79	-
Indonesia	49	-32.92	490	23.82
Ecuador	22	-67.95	439	-64.67
Chile	22	-85.47	199	-47.43
Uzbekistan	20	-	46	-
The Republic of Guatemala	17	-20.38	73	247.37
Peru	-	-	117	-60.51
Paraguay	-	-	74	179.05
Israel	-	-	16	-88.10
Dominican Republic	-	-	63	39.22
Slovenia	-	-	189	-
Costa Rica	-	-	21	-
Vietnam	-	-	447	-
Estonia	-	-	382	-
The Republic of Nicaragua	-	-	18	-
The Republic of Panama	-	-100.00	17	-6.36
Greece	-	-100.00	103	78.89
Poland	-	-	89	-

alumina	139,571	-20.40	1,313,264	-13.47
Origins:
Australia	67,818	-43.35	592,605	-35.64
Indonesia	63,632	19,182.49	296,313	16,636.88
France	2,087	82.07	8,525	64.31
India	1,795	-94.13	126,597	-16.73
Japan	1,724	11.85	7,502	10.00
Germany	1,711	-10.12	7,504	25.05
Mainland China	413	13,654.75	422	2,751.68
South Korea	223	53.45	612	14.64
The US	137	187.34	8,201	-77.96
Austria	20	3,900.00	20	566.67
Hungary	7	-95.31	16	-90.88
Taiwan (China)	3	24.29	9	-80.87
Italy	2	-	9	86.87
Canada	-	-100.00	215	185.95
Vietnam	-	-100.00	195,599	25.48
Belgium	-	-	3	-
Holland	-	-	7	-
Brazil	-	-	120	-99.94
Jamaica	-	-	68,984	-

Bauxite	5,668,535	47.79	25,169,487	16.25
Origins:
Guinea	2,266,217	131.06	9,439,752	164.54
Australia	1,924,421	11.55	9,263,916	18.07
Malaysia	719,614	848.15	2,473,410	-50.30
India	390,836	-12.62	1,341,105	-59.78
Brazil	108,681	-79.15	1,168,741	2.37
The Republic of Montenegro	67,960	-	331,967	-
Solomon Islands	54,750	-	421,130	-
Vietnam	52,596	16.69	154,648	243.11
Jamaica	41,871	-	41,871	-
Republic of Ghana	41,451	3.53	423,462	5.08
Guyana	119	-	119	425.62
Japan	20	-	120	-
Sierra Leone	-	-	50,535	-
Fiji	-	-	58,710	-

aluminum semi-finished products	33,765	4.20	156,222	2.80
Including:
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	4,793	-6.22	21,925	-14.48
Aluminum wire	843	-2.01	4,658	14.26
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	21,553	3.97	101,416	6.98
aluminum foil	5,585	14.69	23,205	0.15
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	852	18.32	4,441	21.89

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	457	29.40	2,223	30.82
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	15	591.16	53	19.43

Exports:
Primary Aluminum	1,889	6,589.50	3,273	-75.71
Destination:
Taiwan (China)	1,199	-	1,200	-80.31
Hong Kong	497	-	999	-
Japan	183	825.32	911	463.66
The Republic of Sudan	10	-	10	-
Australia	-	-100.00	1	-86.42
Cuba	-	-	4	-
South Korea	-	-100.00	77	262.10
Bangladesh	-	-	69	-
The Arab Republic of Egypt	-	-	2	-

aluminum alloy	48,181	12.70	210,285	2.40
Destination:
Japan	29,737	24.04	137,943	41.26
Hong Kong	8,105	-3.62	35,613	-43.45
Australia	1,903	84.96	4,711	22.09
Thailand	1,649	13.05	6,456	-7.88
South Korea	1,623	-29.81	2,680	-34.28
Vietnam	1,311	-37.95	7,070	-28.69
Taiwan (China)	1,283	68.37	5,769	-7.37
Indonesia	820	212.88	2,668	176.74
Malaysia	501	145.22	1,027	124.39
The Philippines	278	-44.50	1,067	-5.02
India	246	-54.64	732	-69.73
The United Arab Emirates	146	4.41	506	-33.40
Brazil	122	-55.87	758	-45.65
Russia	119	47,575.20	305	421.16
Holland	100	-62.48	503	-53.22
Norway	97	286.81	684	2.28
The US	72	41.42	295	4.97
Mexico	39	-83.74	511	-83.26
Germany	15	-	57	-27.48
Italy	6	-24.52	56	4.91
South Africa	3	-60.52	136	72.08
The Kingdom of Bahrain	2	-	229	228.57
Iran	2	-	67	1,240.00
Turkey	2	-77.77	42	6.81
Oman	-	-	21	-
Iraq	-	-	1	-
Israel	-	-	1	-
Bangladesh	-	-100.00	31	1.89
Myanmar	-	-100.00	1	-92.52
Canada	-	-	14	-
Syria	-	-	15	-
The Arab Republic of Egypt	-	-	3	-
The Republic of Angola	-	-	13	-
Saudi Arabia	-	-100.00	13	-71.20
Austria	-	-	5	-
Spain	-	-	97	3,198.02
Pakistan	-	-100.00	184	47.88

scrap aluminum	36	-19.61	261	23.50
Destination:




Pakistan	-	-	1	-30.70

alumina	4,650	21.96	24,109	-43.96
Destination
Japan	2,078	153.98	3,602	129.08
South Korea	1,175	310.77	0	51.01
The US	440	25.79	1,704	13.37
Russia	190	22.66	497	-3.81
Vietnam	188	46.05	1,035	118.04
Taiwan (China)	163	19.69	958	40.77
India	91	0.97	263	-40.06
Malaysia	60	-9.85	361	3.69
The Kingdom of Bahrain	50	-	200	-
Syria	35	-	35	-
Germany	28	27.18	61	-21.74
Indonesia	26	-	120	-38.89
Italy	25	-51.29	100	-75.99
North Korea	24	-98.13	1,526	-53.81
Canada	14	-42.33	66	-43.19
The UK	11	267.00	79	61.60
South Africa	10	-78.26	159	170.75
Chile	9	-	9	-
The Republic of Guatemala	7	366.67	7	366.67
Saudi Arabia	5	-	61	24.31
Bangladesh	5	-75.00	195	-29.02
Singapore	4	37.67	6	-90.46
Iran	3	-95.04	374	-96.43
Israel	2	-	10	194.58
Dominican Republic	2	-	2	-
Holland	2	-63.21	52	-66.96
Thailand	1	-65.71	51	-14.28
Hong Kong	1	-	10	86.83
Australia	1	-95.34	2,706	5,532.04

aluminum semi-finished products	410,000	9.60	1,740,000	3.70
Including
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	75,521	-25.69	326,745	-32.50
Aluminum wire	2,627	38.92	9,818	8.66
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	206,803	33.35	844,489	22.94
aluminum foil	110,037	7.48	496,762	12.45
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	13,105	13.99	54,906	9.05

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	81,969	21.03	357,001	20.45
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	13,045	-19.42	89,546	22.20
Note: “-” means data is unavailable.
(Source: China Customs)
(Edited by SMM)