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Who buys the United Arab Emirates’ unwrought aluminum? Export destinations 2024

In 2024, the United Arab Emirates exported $7.4 billion of unwrought aluminum (2.8 million tonnes), 9.5% of the world total. Its main destinations were the United States (17%), Japan (13%) and Turkey (12%). The United Arab Emirates was the world’s 2nd-largest exporter of unwrought aluminum.

Summary

Value
$7.4billion
Tonnes
2.8million tonnes
Share of world total
9.5%
World rank
2nd
Routes to the main destinations. Width: value; color: estimated transport mode.SeaAirLand

Destinations

The 20 main destinations in the latest year.

PartnerValue (USD billions)TonnesUSD per tonneShareMode
United States1.2Tonnes: 435,185USD per tonne: $2,79416.5%Sea
Japan0.98Tonnes: 379,464USD per tonne: $2,57013.2%Sea
Turkey0.87Tonnes: 354,102USD per tonne: $2,47011.9%Sea
Mexico0.57Tonnes: 206,061USD per tonne: $2,7647.7%Sea
Germany0.5Tonnes: 179,420USD per tonne: $2,8076.8%Sea
Morocco0.34Tonnes: 125,872USD per tonne: $2,6744.6%Sea
Italy0.3Tonnes: 117,181USD per tonne: $2,5404%Sea
Thailand0.28Tonnes: 105,901USD per tonne: $2,6193.8%Sea
Taiwan0.23Tonnes: 86,143USD per tonne: $2,6873.1%Sea
South Korea0.22Tonnes: 85,193USD per tonne: $2,6223%Sea
Malaysia0.22Tonnes: 97,014USD per tonne: $2,2312.9%Sea
Norway0.16Tonnes: 63,186USD per tonne: $2,5992.2%Sea
China0.15Tonnes: 64,083USD per tonne: $2,3472%Sea
United Kingdom0.14Tonnes: 43,616USD per tonne: $3,1531.9%Sea
Indonesia0.13Tonnes: 49,488USD per tonne: $2,5851.7%Sea
India0.13Tonnes: 47,597USD per tonne: $2,6861.7%Sea
Spain0.11Tonnes: 41,081USD per tonne: $2,5901.4%Sea
Netherlands re-exports0.1Tonnes: 39,416USD per tonne: $2,4841.3%Sea
France0.09Tonnes: 31,707USD per tonne: $2,8921.3%Sea
Poland0.09Tonnes: 31,519USD per tonne: $2,7921.2%Sea

Trend

Who it sells to

The United States has been its main destination since 2015

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

  • United States 1.2
  • Japan 0.98
  • Turkey 0.87
  • Mexico 0.57
  • Germany 0.5

Source: CEPII BACI

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Partner19952024
United States< 0.011.2
Japan0.170.98
Turkey< 0.010.87
Mexico00.57
Germany< 0.010.5

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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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