
According to the available data, Belgium’s aluminium scrap import in Q1 2018 had stood lower at 72,954 tonnes, compared to 84,174 tonnes in the same period of 2017. Nevertheless, the total volume of import through 2018 was estimated to record higher at 299,165 tonnes.
However, now after the end of the year 2018, the data found that the total volume of aluminium scrap import by Belgium in the said year pegged at 268,715 tonnes while that in 2017 at 295,073 tonnes. This represents a year-on-year drop in Belgium scrap import by 9 per cent. In 2016, the import volume was at 278,247 tonnes; hence, indicates that 2017 witnessed a year-on-year growth, unlike last year.
{alcircleadd}In tandem with this, the country’s aluminium scrap import from France in 2018 also dropped from 76,084 in 2017 to 74,998 tonnes. This marks a decline by 1.4 per cent year-on-year. Belgium scrap import from France also recorded a decline in 2017, the year that had seen a growth in total import volume. In 2016, the country’s import from France was at 79,233 tonnes, 4 per cent higher from 2017 and almost 6 per cent from 2018.

But as the value is concerned, Belgium’s aluminium scrap import cost from France in 2017 stood 4.34 per cent higher at US$48 million than US$ 46million in 2016. However, 2018 failed to follow the trend while it saw a decline in import cost to US$43 million, along with the decline in volume.
Belgium’s scrap import from Germany in 2018 also stood down at 49,986 tonnes compared to 53,721 tonnes in 2017, marking a year-on-year decline by 7 per cent. In 2016, however, the import volume was even lower at 43,801 tonnes. This indicates that the year 2017 saw a 23 per cent rise in import volume. The data also shows that although the import volume in 2018 stood lower than 2017 but higher by 14 per cent from 2016.

Belgium’s scrap import value from Germany in 2018 consequently stood lower from 2017 at US$48 million. In 2017, the value was at US$52 million, up 13 per cent from US$46 in 2016.
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