08 SEPTEMBER 2025AlCircle.com
China’s aluminium trade contradiction: Export peaks but import grows, too!
Edited by : Pratyusha Chatterjee
7 min read
China’s aluminium story has always been a study in contradictions. On paper, the country dominates the industry. It produced nearly 43 million tonnes of primary aluminium in 2024, more than half the world’s supply. Yet in the same year, it imported over 3 million tonnes of primary aluminium, largely from Russia. Even more puzzling, China simultaneously exported about 6 million tonnes of semi-manufactured aluminium products, making it the world’s largest exporter of value-added aluminium.
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