Selon les statistiques de l'US Geological Survey (USGS), au premier semestre de cette année, les États-Unis ont importé 3.21 million tons of aluminum products, dont 126,000 tons were from Russia, including metals, alliages, crude metals, plaques, and bars, comptabilité pour 3.93% of the total imports.

The US is mulling whether to impose a complete ban on aluminum imports from Russia as a response to recent Russia’s escalated attack in Ukraine. Affected by this news, the London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminum prices once surged by 7% to US$2,400/ton on Wednesday.