Secondo le statistiche dell'US Geological Survey (USGS), nella prima metà di quest'anno, gli Stati Uniti hanno importato 3.21 million tons of aluminum products, di cui 126,000 tons were from Russia, including metals, leghe, crude metals, piatti, and bars, contabilità 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.