Reuters, Shanghai, July 1st - China is the world's major consumer of copper and aluminum, and its changes in consumption have a greater influence on the spot and futures markets of copper and aluminum in the world. The following is a monthly comparison of China's 2005 Copper and aluminium production, imports and exports and apparent consumption data (Units/tons): May April March February 2005 January 2004 refined copper production 222,400 194,700 187,100 186,300 173,700 204 million net imports 117,935 96,562 100,710 105,528 110,810 1,076,270 Apparent consumption of 340,335 291,262 287,810 291,828 284,510 311.6 million ------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- Primary aluminum production 581,300 574,900 568,400 557,000 531,600 656 million net exports 114,486 55,443 114,49 43,255 91,205 707,843 Apparent consumption 466,814 519,457 453,906 513,745 440,395 5.820 million ------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- ---- Alumina production 700,400 653,900 682,700 593,600 634,5 million net imports 520,783 775,080 590,466 711,397 431,978 5,852,297 Apparent consumption 12.12 million 1.429 million 12.173 million 1.335 million 1.066 million 1.278 million : 1. The apparent consumption in this table refers to the output plus the net import or minus the net export. 2. The import and export data comes from the General Administration of Customs of China; the output data comes from the monthly statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics of China. 3. If the National Bureau of Statistics revise the data released last month, Reuters will also update it.
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