China Aluminum Imports and Exports Data Oct. 2017

SHANGHAI,Nov.24 (SMM) - The General Administration of Customs Nov.24 released China's imports and exports of primary aluminum,alumina,aluminum semis and bauxite in Oct. 2017 (unit: mt):

	Oct.	YoY (%)	Jan.– Oct.	YoY (%)
Imports:
Primary Aluminum	5,919	-43.10	103,403	19.28
Origins:
Iran	1,355	-32.23	11,269	7.91
Australia	1,145	-5.64	13,011	21.66
Malaysia	802	-63.09	25,136	237.64
Russia	764	-7.18	11,749	153.47
New Zealand	719	-58.91	9,506	-42.78
India	403	-	9,565	14.65
Nigeria	351	-20.44	1,624	79.76
South Africa	326	-	3,633	606.84
Japan	29	-5.00	220	41.42
Germany	22	-64.98	323	-25.04
France	3	-	3	-59.06
Taiwan (China)	0	-99.99	82	-73.48
The Kingdom of Bahrain	-	-100.00	3,369	1,246.32
The US	-	-100.00	5	36.69
Qatar	-	-100.00	2,904	141.56
Oman	-	-100.00	8,335	-26.01
Saudi Arabia	-	-100.00	119	-97.17
The United Arab Emirates	-	-100.00	2,532	-67.79


aluminum alloy	6,780	27.11	53,643	15.93
Origins:
Taiwan (China)	2,299	77.96	11,663	43.60
The United Arab Emirates	787	132.24	12,150	86.89
South Korea	774	360.11	6,322	86.95
Malaysia	631	32.86	5,907	81.94
Russia	604	2,129.73	1,901	130.20
Mongolia	461	62.58	1,323	54.61
Vietnam	312	536.15	1,763	267.73
Japan	290	76.53	2,626	19.42
Mainland China	285	-26.54	2,410	-37.07
Australia	101	-93.37	3,006	-50.40
The Arab Republic of Egypt	92	-10.96	479	-6.93
Canada	63	172.57	360	150.75
The US	26	272.19	504	34.50
Brazil	20	-	20	-
Hong Kong	20	-	60	152.14
Kazakhstan	13	-9.37	133	0.65
Germany	2	-98.54	645	17.07
Holland	0	362.50	50	7,785.99
Venezuela	-	-100.00	111	-39.33
Country (Region) Unknown	-	-	1	-
Laos	-	-	54	-
Indonesia	-	-100.00	399	-65.44
Thailand	-	-100.00	1,005	61.78
Cameroon	-	-	8	-
The UK	-	-100.00	107	-6.50
South Africa	-	-	259	77.29
Nigeria	-	-	165	-
Georgia	-	-	72	-
Italy	-	-	130	-
France	-	-100.00	9	-64.11

scrap aluminum	179,977	22.86	1,772,989	15.03
Origins:
The US	56,513	23.86	489,885	7.59
Hong Kong	39,984	58.98	290,100	-3.28
Thailand	26,502	2,653.54	198,014	2,218.97
Australia	16,896	-33.00	228,553	-8.83
The UK	10,403	-16.16	124,884	31.43
The Philippines	8,589	1,605.25	66,084	2,369.03
Malaysia	6,127	-67.41	178,541	-19.11
Canada	4,447	41.27	38,359	60.41
Holland	1,989	-57.41	41,254	-13.32
Belgium	1,947	-25.82	22,875	-3.15
Germany	1,395	0.69	19,226	-37.71
Japan	1,150	24.33	10,917	-4.82
Sweden	770	-57.12	11,747	-9.76
France	672	158.84	7,917	-23.15
New Zealand	477	1,039.55	2,442	77.73
Norway	469	391.39	2,830	-51.86
Slovenia	280	-	469	-
Mexico	259	-7.66	4,137	45.10
South Korea	213	-29.02	4,185	-20.43
Taiwan (China)	165	-0.98	2,404	-29.23
Italy	163	76.41	8,044	27.69
Denmark	97	-81.40	1,908	-34.67
Singapore	83	-81.32	2,760	12.85
Finland	80	-	1,234	50.41
Mongolia	77	-	586	-0.13
Indonesia	62	-35.12	674	-1.82
Latvia	43	-	43	-
Colombia	42	10.11	1,426	-7.49
Spain	40	-87.56	7,594	6.86
The United Arab Emirates	24	-	24	-
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico	19	-57.78	533	1,057.95
Uzbekistan	-	-	48	-
The Republic of Panama	-	-100.00	17	-55.23
The Republic of Nicaragua	-	-100.00	18	-69.59
Mainland China	-	-	106	-
Paraguay	-	-	74	179.05
Macao	-	-100.00	441	-78.22
Israel	-	-	31	-84.71
Peru	-	-100.00	117	-70.65
The Republic of El Salvador	-	-	116	-34.56
The Republic of Guatemala	-	-100.00	73	21.99
Estonia	-	-	382	-
Russia	-	-	18	-
Swiss	-	-	105	-
Greece	-	-	189	135.67
Poland	-	-	89	-
Vietnam	-	-100.00	447	1,617.07
Dominican	-	-	63	39.22
Ecuador	-	-100.00	439	-72.37
Costa Rica	-	-	21	-
Brazil	-	-	347	-19.58
Chile	-	-100.00	199	-64.22

alumina	277,674	21.19	2,511,532	4.70
Origins:
Australia	94,877	6.79	1,095,696	-22.74
Vietnam	80,650	269.95	466,270	97.12
Indonesia	64,297	-43.99	594,070	161.99
India	32,278	-	223,792	20.83
Germany	1,647	54.24	15,842	32.03
France	1,590	77.49	17,483	107.54
Japan	1,442	-7.63	15,486	3.55
The US	553	797.80	9,342	-85.24
South Korea	262	188.31	1,641	20.39
Canada	58	-	359	70.42
Holland	19	-	26	-62.93
Austria	1	-66.67	22	228.30
The UK	0	5,233.33	5	2,537.76
Hungary	-	-	43	-90.35
Brazil	-	-	120	-99.94
Jamaica	-	-	68,984	-
Turkey	-	-	1,320	-
Belgium	-	-	3	7,400.00
Taiwan (China)	-	-100.00	20	-61.86
Mainland China	-	-100.00	994	3,699.18
Portugal	-	-100.00	1	244.83
Italy	-	-100.00	11	8.74
Denmark	-	-100.00	1	188.14

Bauxite	4,457,387	4.53	55,603,446	32.65
Origins:
Australia	1,864,723	-9.12	20,613,486	16.61
Guinea	1,649,594	39.71	21,780,257	154.50
Brazil	308,249	-34.22	2,849,920	-12.93
Indonesia	126,380	-	562,926	-
Republic of Ghana	112,587	65.22	717,852	-10.97
India	97,086	-51.64	2,060,559	-48.28
Malaysia	87,936	-65.37	4,690,766	-30.75
Montenegro	69,189	-	636,639	148.32
Fiji	59,828	-	118,538	104.26
Solomon Islands	51,900	29.81	1,069,828	632.07
Jamaica	29,916	-	183,391	-
Japan	-	-	310	-
Sierra Leone	-	-	48,598	-
Guyana	-	-	3,427	29.79
Vietnam	-	-	266,949	489.95

aluminum semi-finished products	30,405	-0.70	323,117	2.30
Including:
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	3,830	-38.44	45,901	-9.96
Aluminum wire	860	34.48	9,344	2.54
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	19,759	7.48	208,088	4.80
aluminum foil	4,975	11.72	49,903	2.31
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	788	-7.19	8,643	16.82

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	445	39.99	4,884	37.54
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	4	-57.16	102	-6.10

Exports:
Primary Aluminum	2,775	9,939.81	13,941	-16.20
Destination:
South Korea	2,406	-	5,063	-48.68
Japan	192	848.34	1,547	465.99
Singapore	177	-	177	-
The Republic of Sudan	-	-	10	13.35
The Arab Republic of Egypt	-	-	2	-
Australia	-	-100.00	1	-89.05
The US	-	-100.00	24	185.05
Cuba	-	-	4	46.27
North Korea	-	-100.00	286	259.68
Bangladesh	-	-	69	-
Hong Kong	-	-	3,378	-
Taiwan (China)	-	-	3,357	-44.92


aluminum alloy	37,862	-13.41	445,905	7.97
Destination:
Japan	22,700	-14.26	276,788	28.45
Hong Kong	7,550	-4.28	77,179	-26.60
Thailand	2,282	-4.90	21,699	14.86
Vietnam	1,558	-11.75	16,655	-11.44
Taiwan (China)	1,181	21.04	13,090	23.71
Australia	741	-15.13	11,968	40.88
Indonesia	527	-14.11	7,492	150.92
The Philippines	282	56.62	2,501	8.30
Mexico	198	67.63	1,064	-68.59
The United Arab Emirates	162	-34.15	1,430	-0.86
Holland	150	0.15	1,056	-39.54
Malaysia	101	-50.31	2,286	62.25
Brazil	95	-62.25	1,171	-62.17
Russia	82	106.75	634	283.72
Norway	74	-50.11	1,395	8.89
South Korea	53	-88.12	5,989	-36.82
The US	47	-93.78	562	-54.21
South Africa	25	306.83	316	97.32
Spain	23	-	149	354.24
Nigeria	20	-	20	-
The Kingdom of Bahrain	5	-	257	176.89
Turkey	4	-60.96	76	-26.61
Bangladesh	2	-	38	-13.33
Italy	-	-100.00	152	-4.02
Canada	-	-	14	-26.69
Iran	-	-100.00	101	461.11
Peru	-	-	1	220.00
Austria	-	-	5	-
Argentina	-	-	11	-91.43
Pakistan	-	-	197	52.05
Saudi Arabia	-	-100.00	13	-79.90
Syria	-	-	16	-
Iraq	-	-	1	-
Israel	-	-	1	-
Oman	-	-	22	-
India	-	-100.00	1,354	-73.21
The Republic of Angola	-	-	13	-
The Arab Republic of Egypt	-	-	3	-94.45
Germany	-	-	61	-71.15
Myanmar	-	-	15	-54.11
Kazakhstan	-	-	2	100.00
Algeria	-	-	103	-

scrap aluminum	35	-5.02	469	1.02
Destination:
Japan	35	-2.91	415	11.46
Turkey	-	-	45	60.71
Vietnam	-	-	2	-
India	-	-	4	-
Pakistan	-	-100.00	2	32.94

alumina	4,698	-75.64	46,797	-53.64
Destination
South Korea	2,425	1,328.74	15,443	35.98
Japan	1,032	492.48	10,883	212.33
The US	426	98.38	3,449	29.55
Taiwan (China)	142	-37.03	1,951	10.07
Vietnam	122	-66.42	1,708	9.36
Russia	113	-97.92	1,027	-83.75
India	79	-63.93	837	-62.36
The UK	50	9.30	252	106.02
Malaysia	49	-7.02	566	-1.60
Pakistan	48	698.33	145	1.72
Indonesia	44	89.76	487	99.61
Canada	42	3,288.31	305	23.18
Iran	24	-99.81	718	-98.41
Spain	22	-	171	99.50
Bangladesh	16	-	448	31.92
Italy	15	-81.51	185	-70.15
Belgium	12	2,972.52	205	82.79
Mexico	10	-	13	-71.15
Algeria	5	-	5	49,900.00
Argentina	5	150.00	10	388.29
Turkey	4	-	627	1,988.23
Singapore	4	-69.50	12	-85.33
Portugal	3	-	16	7.50
Uzbekistan	2	-	132	-55.04
South Africa	1	-	178	88.77
The Republic of Sudan	1	-	12	5,790.00
Germany	1	1,376.36	192	88.51
Hong Kong	1	-91.94	16	33.77
Lithuania	0	-	1	-
Thailand	0	-99.26	258	73.50
Turkmenistan	0	-	3	-97.91
Holland	-	-100.00	103	-40.43
Colombia	-	-100.00	7	-74.08
Dominican	-	-	2	-
The Republic of Guatemala	-	-	7	366.67
Australia	-	-100.00	3,026	4,831.41
New Zealand	-	-	3	-46.24
France	-	-	99	-26.05
The Independent State of Papua New Guinea	-	-	1	-
The Czech Republic	-	-	1	-64.29
Swiss	-	-	1	-
Slovenia	-	-100.00	1	-90.46
Ukraine	-	-100.00	9	112.42
Poland	-	-100.00	12	7.90
Albania	-	-	1	-
Chile	-	-	10	-
Hungary	-	-100.00	11	-13.40
Finland	-	-	1	62.50
The Philippines	-	-100.00	45	80.35
Mongolia	-	-100.00	30	1,251.11
The State of Kuwait	-	-	2	-
The United Arab Emirates	-	-100.00	89	532.08
Syria	-	-	35	-
Saudi Arabia	-	-	130	150.10
Israel	-	-100.00	10	147.20
Myanmar	-	-100.00	68	398.15
Brunei Darussalam	-	-	1	-
The Kingdom of Bahrain	-	-100.00	350	366.67
Iraq	-	-	4	-
North Korea	-	-	2,073	-67.55
Cambodia	-	-	5	-
Nigeria	-	-100.00	189	-73.16
Nigeria	-	-	4	-
Morocco	-	-	6	-
Zambia	-	-	1	-8.60
Congo	-	-100.00	2	200.00
Tanzania	-	-	37	-
Madagascar	-	-	39	-
Djibouti	-	-	7	-
Benin	-	-	3	300.00
the Republic of Kyrgyzstan	-	-	8	149.00
Kenya	-	-	58	-
Republic of Ghana	-	-	47	-
The Arab Republic of Egypt	-	-	6	-75.27

aluminum semi-finished products	310,000	2.60	3,520,000	3.70
Including:
Aluminum bar, rod, and profile	63,167	-18.66	690,687	-30.10
Aluminum wire	1,814	2.55	20,116	9.99
Aluminum plate, sheet, and strip	148,716	15.39	1,711,134	24.24
aluminum foil	89,684	1.59	973,817	8.51
Aluminum tube (including accessories)	10,503	17.31	112,500	10.35

Finished products:
Aluminum structure and components	65,299	8.83	716,827	16.25
Aluminum stranded wire, cable	11,082	-23.33	165,593	13.60
Note: “-” means data is unavailable.
(Source: China Customs)
(Edited by SMM)