De acordo com estatísticas do US Geological Survey (USGS), no primeiro semestre deste ano, os EUA importaram 3.21 million tons of aluminum products, dos quais 126,000 tons were from Russia, including metals, ligas, crude metals, pratos, and bars, contabilidade para 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.