Primary Aluminium Ingot (P1020A, 99.7% Al)

P1020A primary aluminium at 99.7% Al minimum in ingots, T-bars and sows, priced off the LME plus the regional premium

Primary aluminium ingot is bought on grade, form and the premium for getting the metal into the buyer's market. P1020A is the LME's high-grade primary aluminium specification: 99.7% Al minimum, silicon 0.10% maximum and iron 0.20% maximum, with limits on zinc, gallium and vanadium; the regional premium assessments for Rotterdam, Italy and Major Japan Ports (MJP) are quoted on P1020A to the LME chemistry. Remelters, alloy makers and extruders that cast their own billet buy 22.5 kg ingots strapped in bundles of about 1 MT; larger casthouses take T-bars and sows. As with every exchange metal, a brand listed with the LME carries a known chemistry, while ingot from an unlisted smelter or a remelter is bought on its own certificate of analysis with independent sampling. On the trade, UN Comtrade 2024 export declarations under HS 7601.10 (unwrought aluminium, not alloyed) sum to USD 26.05 billion across the reporting countries, led by Canada (USD 4.94 billion; 1.83 million MT), India (USD 3.50 billion; 1.41 million MT), Australia (USD 3.29 billion), Malaysia (USD 1.87 billion), Iceland (USD 1.70 billion), the Netherlands (USD 1.62 billion), Bahrain (USD 0.64 billion) and Saudi Arabia (USD 0.58 billion).

Two policy costs now sit inside the delivered price. Imports into the EU fall under the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, whose definitive period started on 1 January 2026 and covers CN 7601: the importer must be authorised and account for embedded emissions, so smelter emissions data or the default values are part of the file. Imports into the United States carry a Section 232 tariff, reported at 50% on primary aluminium metal from 6 April 2026, with later amendments and preferential routes; confirm the rate against the current tariff schedule at shipment. Buyers are extruders, rolling mills, alloy and die-casting plants, wire and cable makers and steel plants in the Gulf, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Africa and Turkiye. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and works smelter and trader parcels against the certificate of analysis, brand certificate and certificate of origin, with independent weighing and sampling at stuffing and no payment against copies. Ingot moves in 20-foot container lots on FOB, CFR and CIF terms. Send the grade, form, monthly tonnage, discharge port and the premium the price should be built on.

Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.