China has announced the list of copper and aluminum consumption from January to August

October 14 news: China is the world's major consumer of copper and aluminum, the changes in its consumption have a greater influence on the world copper and aluminum spot and futures markets.
The following are monthly copper and aluminum production, imports and exports, and apparent consumption data (in thousands of tons) since 2005:
August July June May April March February January Refined copper production 20.31 20.53 21.24 22.20 19.47 18.71 18.63 17.37 Net imports 10.85 9.42 12.73 11.79 9.66 10.07 10.55 11.08 Apparent consumption 31.16 29.95 33.97 33.99 29.13 28.78 29.18 28.45 Production of primary aluminum 76.04 62.63 60.11 59.92 57.49 56.84 55.70 53.16 Net exports 1.67 5.38 8.85 11.45 5.54 11.45 4.33 9.12 Apparent consumption 74.37 57.25 51.26 48.47 51.95 45.39 51.37 44.04 Alumina production 73.43 72.75 68.00 70.13 65.39 68.27 59.36 63.45 Net imports 50.86 52.52 66.01 52.08 77.51 59.05 71.14 43.20 Apparent consumption 124.29 125.27 134.01 122.21 142.90 127.32 130.50 106.65
Note: 1. The apparent consumption in this table refers to the output plus the net import or minus the net export.

2. Import and export volume data comes from the General Administration of Customs of China; production data comes from 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.