
According to aluminium recycling statistics published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, the U.S. aluminium industry purchased an estimated 352,000 tonnes of aluminium scrap during March 2018, down about 6% from the March 2017 total. Total aluminium recovered from scrap in March 2018 was 304,000 tonnes, 6% more than the revised amount in February 2018, but 5% less than the revised amount in March 2017, indicating a drop year on year. The changing trade policies of the Trump administration are creating disruptions in the procurement of scrap. Mexico remains the top aluminium scrap supplier to the US in the first quarter of 2018.

Of the total scrap recovery, 175,000 tonnes of aluminium was recovered from new scrap and 129,000 tonne was recovered from old scrap.
Through the first quarter of 2018, preliminary data indicate that recovery of aluminium from scrap totalled an estimated 968,000 tonnes, down 3.2% in comparison to the amount recovered in the same period of 2017. U.S. exports of scrap, not included in the government’s consumption statistics, totalled 422,000 tonnes in the period from January to March, up 6.9% over the same period of 2017.
Domestic primary aluminium production in March 2018 was 71,000 tonnes. The average daily production in March was 2,290 tonnes, 5% more than that in February 2018, 13% more than that in March 2017, but 8% less than that in March 2016.
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