Mengikut statistik dari US Geological Survey (USGS), pada separuh pertama tahun ini, yang diimport oleh AS 3.21 million tons of aluminum products, yang mana 126,000 tons were from Russia, including metals, aloi, crude metals, plat, and bars, perakaunan untuk 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.