China's nickel imports, exports in Nov 2017

Published: Dec 26, 2017 15:48 (GMT+8)

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China's nickel imports and exports in November 2017.

SHANGHAI, Dec 26 (SMM) -

(Unit: mt)	Nov	YoY (%)	Jan – Nov	YoY (%)
Imports:
Unwrought nickel (refined nickel+nickel alloy)	26,349	55.74	197,970	-43.70
Origins:
Russia	10,690	34.07	96,119	-55.93
Australia	5,425	250.30	24,283	14.73
Canada	1,682	-26.43	22,178	-29.78
South Africa	1,605	54.81	10,056	-43.99
Mainland China	1,553	308.80	4,055	10.23
Japan	1,441	262.23	9,907	-24.62
Brazil	1,181	-	1,305	15.86
Norway	990	-24.83	9,069	-57.07
Finland	933	143.01	4,747	-22.56
Madagascar	320	-65.43	7,715	-5.47
The UK	320	-22.19	4,533	40.27
Taiwan (China)	198	-17.66	1,158	-65.49
The US	8	293.99	172	19.31
South Korea	2	-25.00	2,587	64.66
Belgium	1	-93.10	53	10.40
Hong Kong	0	-50.00	21	975.90
Germany	0	25.52	6	16.21
North Korea	-	-	4	-81.85

Nickel ore	3,091,268	7.15	32,496,887	7.48
Origins:
The Philippines	2,452,281	-8.69	27,387,033	-5.14
Indonesia	381,370	1,620.13	3,312,306	874.80
New Caledonia	194,637	366.52	844,052	117.18
The Republic of Guatemala	22,469	-77.13	354,796	207.59
South Africa	19,655	101.19	152,676	182.31
Russia	11,183	-	122,978	16.70
Australia	5,259	-32.53	85,690	-39.70
Republic of Zimbabwe	3,882	-71.38	29,335	-52.71
Malaysia	531	15.25	3,101	94.88
Canada	0	-	4,821	-
The Independent State of Papua New Guinea	-	-	1,067	-
Tanzania	-	-100.00	143	-88.57
Turkey	-	-	188,749	-
Brazil	-	-	221	-99.43
Finland	-	-	9,920	-49.73

Ferronickel	92,539	-23.02	1,290,830	36.51
Origins:
Indonesia	58,577	-36.28	932,073	36.60
New Caledonia	10,586	-0.32	108,382	22.82
Myanmar	9,330	200.15	82,917	315.71
Colombia	8,595	66.35	64,636	36.39
Brazil	2,994	-30.61	43,779	-9.19
Japan	1,343	-15.42	22,587	-10.58
Macedonia	859	-31.84	22,448	70.18
South Korea	201	-	1,113	-87.88
The Republic of Guatemala	55	-	1,326	-82.09
The US	-	-	5	23.89
Australia	-	-	10	1,045.63
Dominican	-	-	160	-
Serbia	-	-	5,959	-
Dominican	-	-100.00	4,442	134.81
France	-	-	993	-

Exports:
Unwrought nickel (refined nickel+nickel alloy)	1,827	-0.81	18,471	28.32
Destination
Taiwan (China)	1,420	12.71	10,314	129.23
Indonesia	220	-	687	573.09
Iran	60	55.21	202	-57.41
The US	44	-24.75	457	-4.08
India	24	-91.37	491	-6.70
Thailand	18	-	111	30.97
South Korea	17	-14.00	147	-85.47
Pakistan	13	-5.69	194	-25.13
Hong Kong	10	-	225	-93.01
Japan	1	-	2	-96.92
Holland	-	-	50	-
Italy	-	-	960	33.33
Spain	-	-	1,120	253.55
Slovenia	-	-	40	-
Australia	-	-	13	-
Vietnam	-	-	59	-57.86
Turkey	-	-	9	-87.25
Malaysia	-	-	48	-10.99
The UK	-	-	1	-40.00
Belgium	-	-	3,066	59.69
South Africa	-	-	274	356.67

Ferronickel	307	-	2,240	11.07
Destination:
Taiwan (China)	307	-	968	-
Finland	-	-	993	-
India	-	-	279	-

(Source: Chinese customs)
(Edited by SMM)

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