Russia cuts aluminum export 18%, nickel 6%, copper 9% in Jan-Apr
MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - Russian aluminum exports fell 17.8% year-on-year in January-April to 955,300 tonnes, the Federal Customs Service (FCS) said.
The exports fell 19.8% in value to $1.826 billion.
Nickel export fell 6% year-on-year in January-April to 63,800 tonnes and copper export was down 9.2% to 69,500 tonnes.
Russian aluminum, copper and nickel exports in Jan-Apr 2014:
| Overall exports | Non-CIS | CIS | ||||
| '000 tonnes | $ mln | '000 tonnes | $ mln | '000 tonnes | $ mln | |
| Export | ||||||
| Unprocessed aluminum | 955.3 | 1 826.2 | 932.2 | 1 780.5 | 23 | 45.7 |
| 4M 2014/4M 2013 | -17.8% | -19.8% | -17.4% | -19% | -29.6% | -43.3% |
| Unprocessed nickel | 63.8 | 904.4 | 63.6 | 901 | 0.1 | 3.5 |
| 4M 2014/4M 2013 | -6% | -22.1% | -6.2% | -22.2% | - | 20.7% |
| Refined copper | 69.5 | 477.3 | 67.6 | 467.7 | 1.9 | 9.6 |
| 4M 2014/4M 2013 | -9.2% | -20% | -7.6% | -18.5% | -40.6% | -55% |
| Import | ||||||
| Aluminum ores and concentrates | 15.8 | 4.9 | 14.6 | 4.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 |
| 4M 2014/4M 2013 | Nearly double | 44% | 120% | 53% | -31.2% | -50% |
