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July 2018 | Aluminium Weekly Market Tracker


Chinese foil exports finds a new home: Asian and Middle Eastern Market Analysis - Flat Rolled Products


According to US trade data, China exported 22.9kt of aluminium foil into the US market over the first four months of 2018. This was a decline of 37.6kt on the same period of 2017. To some degree the lost volumes from China have been replaced with imports from other Asian foil mills, including plants in South Korea, Indonesia.

Chinese foil producers are targeting other Asian countries as sales to the US drop off
According to US trade data, China exported 22.9kt of aluminium foil into the US market over the first four months of 2018. This was a decline of 37.6kt on the same period of 2017. To some degree the lost volumes from China have been replaced with imports from other Asian foil mills, including plants in South Korea, Indonesia.

Other Asian mill push high foil volumes into China

During the first four...

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