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Who buys South Africa’s unwrought aluminum? Export destinations 2024

In 2024, South Africa exported $2.2 billion of unwrought aluminum (882 thousand tonnes), 2.8% of the world total. Its main destinations were Mexico (22%), the United States (17%) and Japan (12%). South Africa was the world’s 10th-largest exporter of unwrought aluminum.

Summary

Value
$2.2billion
Tonnes
882thousand tonnes
Share of world total
2.8%
World rank
10th
Routes to the main destinations. Width: value; color: estimated transport mode.SeaAirLand

Destinations

The 20 main destinations in the latest year.

PartnerValue (USD millions)TonnesUSD per tonneShareMode
Mexico483Tonnes: 176,155USD per tonne: $2,74322.5%Sea
United States355Tonnes: 155,227USD per tonne: $2,29016.5%Sea
Japan256Tonnes: 107,359USD per tonne: $2,38911.9%Sea
Netherlands re-exports163Tonnes: 86,012USD per tonne: $1,8917.6%Sea
Thailand126Tonnes: 51,116USD per tonne: $2,4755.9%Sea
Greece109Tonnes: 44,929USD per tonne: $2,4325.1%Sea
United Kingdom64.1Tonnes: 25,016USD per tonne: $2,5623%Sea
Poland56.3Tonnes: 20,688USD per tonne: $2,7232.6%Sea
Germany49.8Tonnes: 15,237USD per tonne: $3,2672.3%Sea
Italy43.7Tonnes: 16,696USD per tonne: $2,6162%Sea
Dominican Republic42.9Tonnes: 15,562USD per tonne: $2,7572%Sea
Malaysia40.5Tonnes: 24,547USD per tonne: $1,6501.9%Sea
Spain34.1Tonnes: 13,067USD per tonne: $2,6101.6%Sea
Indonesia33Tonnes: 14,260USD per tonne: $2,3161.5%Sea
Singapore re-exports32.3Tonnes: 13,012USD per tonne: $2,4821.5%Sea
Norway26.7Tonnes: 10,093USD per tonne: $2,6501.2%Sea
Montenegro26.3Tonnes: 12,021USD per tonne: $2,1881.2%Sea
Switzerland24Tonnes: 8,768USD per tonne: $2,7341.1%Sea
Turkey23.4Tonnes: 8,420USD per tonne: $2,7811.1%Sea
France21.3Tonnes: 7,479USD per tonne: $2,8490.99%Sea

Trend

Who it sells to

Mexico has been its main destination since 2023

Value in USD millions. The five largest destinations in 2024.

  • Mexico 483
  • United States 355
  • Japan 256
  • Netherlands 163
  • Thailand 126

Source: CEPII BACI

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Partner19952024
Mexico0483
United States0.38355
Japan19.4256
Netherlands2.5163
Thailand1.3126

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), which reconciles what exporters and importers report: countries that stopped reporting (Russia since 2022) appear with their partners’ data. FOB values in current US dollars; tonnes when BACI reports them. The price per tonne is the value of the rows with a weight divided by that weight. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.

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