Welded aluminium alloy tubes

EU-27 trade, 2005–2025

EU-27 imports and exports – with non-EU countries or within the EU (arrivals reported by EU countries and their dispatches to other EU countries) – in tonnes, euro or as unit value; the current year – monthly data (incomplete year).

extra-EU imports extra-EU exports gap (no figure, not zero) 2026* – data for 2026-01/2026-08 (incomplete year, hollow marker, no line)

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (monthly data) – latest data: 2026-08 (intra-EU: 2026-07); retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2026-11-13 (period 2026-09)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 trade – Welded aluminium alloy tubes – extra-EU, tonnes of product mass

Year	extra-EU imports	extra-EU exports	Balance
2005	gap – no figure, not zero
2006	10,753	12,723	1,970
2007	11,272	12,418	1,147
2008	11,025	13,677	2,652
2009	8,810	9,088	278
2010	12,443	11,237	−1,206
2011	14,833	14,090	−743
2012	14,098	11,382	−2,716
2013	14,972	11,712	−3,260
2014	14,076	12,360	−1,717
2015	9,781	10,063	282
2016	10,042	10,527	485
2017	11,468	10,300	−1,167
2018	10,331	11,963	1,632
2019	6,063	10,547	4,484
2020	4,676	9,032	4,356
2021	5,133	9,718	4,585
2022	4,017	9,193	5,177
2023	2,977	7,760	4,783
2024	2,813	7,378	4,565
2025	2,876	5,890	3,014
2026 2026-01/2026-08	1,773	3,306	1,534

tonnes of product mass. Balance = exports − imports.

PRODCOM code group balance in the EU-27, 2025

EU-27 sold production (PRODCOM) and extra-EU imports make up supply; supply is apparent consumption plus extra-EU exports. Band widths are proportional to tonnes (one scale); intra-EU trade is a loop – it moves products between EU countries and does not change the EU-27 balance.

Source: Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358 and DS-059367, Comext DS-045409; compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Production, imports, exports and apparent consumption – within PRODCOM code 24.42.26.30, 24.42.26.50 (all classes of the code and the CN codes of its scope); intra-EU trade – the class CN codes. Production flag E – Eurostat estimate (E).
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)
Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 balance – PRODCOM group 24.42.26.30, 24.42.26.50 (2 classes, including Welded aluminium alloy tubes), 2025

Balance item	Mass (t)
EU-27 sold production (code group)	151,929 (E)
Extra-EU imports (code group)	29,376
EU-27 supply (code group)	181,304
Extra-EU exports (code group)	28,707
Apparent consumption (code group)	152,597
Intra-EU trade (class)	18,621

PRODCOM production and apparent consumption

EU-27 sold production according to PRODCOM (codes 24.42.26.30, 24.42.26.50) and apparent consumption = production + extra-EU imports − extra-EU exports. Eurostat flags above the bars: E – estimate, R – rounded value; C – confidential value (no bar, not filled in). The PRODCOM codes also cover classes: Extruded and drawn aluminium tubes .

EU-27 sold production (t) Eurostat estimate (E) apparent consumption (t) E – Eurostat estimate, R – rounded, C – confidential (no bar), “–” – gap ; X – reliability check: EU-27 total recalculated without countries with an unreliable value (no bar – no figure)

Source: Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358 and DS-059367 (sold production), Comext DS-045409 (trade for apparent consumption); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Scope of PRODCOM codes 24.42.26.30, 24.42.26.50 (classes: Extruded and drawn aluminium tubes, Welded aluminium alloy tubes). Sold production (excluding production for own use). Years without figures – no EU-27 production (confidentiality, no code, unreliable value – X) or an ambiguous CN code.
Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 sold production and apparent consumption – PRODCOM group 24.42.26.30, 24.42.26.50 (2 classes, including Welded aluminium alloy tubes), 2005–2025

Year	Sold production (t)	Quantity flag	Value (EUR)	Apparent consumption (t)
2005	gap		–	–
2006	217,299		938,775,379	215,785
2007	249,965		1,128,863,027	257,552
2008	unreliable value (X)	RX	924,503,118	–
2009	146,681		582,289,829	150,553
2010	162,847		712,756,640	173,730
2011	170,079	R	755,669,501	181,735
2012	162,813	R	712,992,010	172,350
2013	160,756		681,279,344	166,282
2014	161,074		671,656,119	166,765
2015	168,431		728,919,481	179,694
2016	173,632		718,838,348	185,456
2017	181,184	R	791,138,389	192,461
2018	192,853		867,995,354	207,277
2019	186,243	R	796,722,018	204,027
2020	169,857		649,194,370	178,709
2021	201,424	E	842,449,031	212,685
2022	194,951	E	1,169,968,888	203,355
2023	177,268	ER	984,758,160	182,451
2024	153,355	ER	800,000,000	156,246
2025	151,929	E	893,041,981	152,597

EU-27 countries, 2025

Mass balance of a country (exports − imports, all partners, including other EU countries) or the country share of exports or imports of the 27 EU countries.

export surplus ≥ 4,108 texport surplus 1,027 t–4,108 texport surplus < 1,027 tbalance ≈ 0import surplus < 1,027 timport surplus 1,027 t–4,108 timport surplus ≥ 4,108 tno figure (confidential exports)non-EU countries

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Trade of EU-27 countries with all partners (WORLD); share – of the 27-country total. Balance thresholds – 10% and 40% of the largest absolute balance. The country map uses the declarations of the country itself (its exports and imports), the flow map – import declarations of the partners (country of consignment); differences are asymmetries of intra-EU trade statistics (transit, triangular trade, confidentiality). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 countries in the trade of the class – Welded aluminium alloy tubes, 2025

Country	Imports (t)	Exports (t)	Balance (t)	Share of EU-27 imports (%)	Share of EU-27 exports (%)	Intra-EU dispatches according to partner declarations (t)
Belgium	111	10,382	+10.3 thousand t	0.5	40.2	6,069
Italy	175	7,238	+7,063 t	0.8	28.0	3,435
Germany	4,160	5,965	+1,805 t	19.4	23.1	2,272
Bulgaria	56	642	+586 t	0.3	2.5	659
Sweden	23	26	+3 t	0.1	0.1	9
Malta	2	0	−2 t	0.0	0.0	0
Netherlands	63	55	−7.5 t	0.3	0.2	100
Cyprus	10	0	−9.6 t	0.0	0.0	0
Lithuania	80	64	−16.2 t	0.4	0.3	5
Greece	44	7	−36.6 t	0.2	0.0	203
Ireland	41	0	−40.7 t	0.2	0.0	0
Estonia	85	0	−84.7 t	0.4	0.0	0
Romania	147	61	−85.4 t	0.7	0.2	808
Slovenia	122	14	−108 t	0.6	0.1	42
Croatia	112	1	−111 t	0.5	0.0	6
Finland	164	19	−145 t	0.8	0.1	10
Luxembourg	161	0	−161 t	0.8	0.0	2
Latvia	275	0	−274 t	1.3	0.0	1
Austria	569	291	−278 t	2.7	1.1	209
Denmark	303	6	−297 t	1.4	0.0	1,683
Hungary	681	116	−565 t	3.2	0.5	34
Slovakia	960	20	−940 t	4.5	0.1	238
Spain	2,287	239	−2,048 t	10.6	0.9	211
France	2,587	406	−2,181 t	12.0	1.6	164
Poland	2,895	146	−2,750 t	13.5	0.6	2,009
Czechia	5,248	132	−5,116 t	24.4	0.5	177
Portugal	139	confidential (C)	–	0.7	–	276

Intra-EU flows, 2025

Arcs run from the country of consignment to the country of destination (arrivals reported by an EU country by country of consignment); width proportional to the square root of mass.

Arc: consignment → destination1,000 t200 t50 t

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Arrivals of EU countries by country of consignment (EU-27 partners); pairs sorted by mass, descending. Arrivals without a stated country of consignment (confidential): 0.8 t – not on the map. Arc width – proportional to the square root of mass (reference widths in the legend). The country map uses the declarations of the country itself (its exports and imports), the flow map – import declarations of the partners (country of consignment); differences are asymmetries of intra-EU trade statistics (transit, triangular trade, confidentiality). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

Intra-EU flows – Welded aluminium alloy tubes, 2025

Flow (consignment → destination)	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)
Belgium → Poland	1,896	8,652,024
Poland → Czechia	1,836	7,084,814
Belgium → Germany	1,616	8,478,301
Belgium → France	1,247	6,448,562
Denmark → Czechia	1,055	17,022,327
Italy → Czechia	1,037	5,043,162
Germany → Slovakia	856	5,255,663
Germany → Czechia	831	6,272,830
Italy → France	767	3,742,954
Belgium → Spain	766	3,315,187
Romania → Poland	686	2,612,947
Denmark → Spain	606	4,314,783
Italy → Germany	548	3,080,852
Italy → Austria	323	1,649,043
Bulgaria → Hungary	317	1,081,121
Portugal → France	270	1,633,051
Italy → Latvia	268	1,261,051
Belgium → Denmark	225	1,213,702
Greece → Hungary	190	672,510
Bulgaria → Czechia	186	1,233,902
Germany → Spain	177	1,577,193
Czechia → Germany	153	559,471
Slovakia → Czechia	149	604,271
Romania → Germany	119	464,356
Austria → Germany	115	681,872
Belgium → Czechia	108	676,721
Belgium → Finland	94	536,866
Italy → Slovakia	87	492,940
Slovakia → Austria	84	631,528
Italy → Spain	79	722,334
Bulgaria → Austria	78	379,184
Italy → Estonia	78	463,849
Germany → Italy	75	726,715
Germany → Romania	73	771,689
Spain → Portugal	73	999,959
France → Luxembourg	65	172,963
Italy → Belgium	62	448,021
Spain → France	62	300,919
Italy → Slovenia	58	229,712
Germany → Poland	56	1,273,419
Germany → France	51	286,380
Poland → Luxembourg	50	485
Poland → France	43	184,409
Belgium → Luxembourg	39	111,886
Netherlands → France	37	195,604
Poland → Lithuania	37	148,704
Germany → Bulgaria	36	104,844
Austria → Denmark	36	43,003

Non-EU partners, 2025

The ten largest non-EU suppliers and customers; arrows from the partner to the EU (imports) or from the EU to the partner (exports), width proportional to the square root of mass.

1. South Africa* · 1,024 t
2. Switzerland · 866 t
3. China* · 379 t
4. Türkiye · 260 t
5. United Arab Emirates* · 72.4 t
6. Tunisia* · 62.6 t
7. United States* · 45.8 t
8. Vietnam* · 41.1 t
9. Morocco* · 35.3 t
10. United Kingdom · 32.4 t

Arrow from/to the EU-27 point (notional centre of the EU area); number – rank and mass1,000 t200 t20 t * country outside the frame – notional point on the map edge in the direction from the EU; arrow direction notional

Source: Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (class CN8 codes, EU-27); compiled by ai-waw.com – products dataset 2.1. Shares and concentration – of extra-EU trade mass (including unspecified partners). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), Lambert conformal conic projection.
Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data) – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-02 (period 2026)

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Figure data (table)

EU-27 imports by country of origin – Welded aluminium alloy tubes, 2025

#	Country	Mass (t)	Value (EUR)	Share (%)
1	South Africa	1,024	7,509,778	35.6
2	Switzerland	866	4,009,868	30.1
3	China	379	3,987,008	13.2
4	Türkiye	260	2,024,340	9.0
5	United Arab Emirates	72	366,213	2.5
6	Tunisia	63	597,190	2.2
7	United States	46	1,070,531	1.6
8	Vietnam	41	182,998	1.4
9	Morocco	35	1,035,576	1.2
10	United Kingdom	32	918,922	1.1

Product chain

Place of the class in the processing chain: unwrought metal, preceding classes, the class, following classes and scrap. Nodes are classes of the dictionary (links); the current class – in the accent colour.

The scheme orders the classes of the dictionary by processing stage (family rules in the portal code: same material, a derived product after the non-derived one; links named explicitly – e.g. cans from can stock, die castings from casting alloys, coated steel from galvanizing alloys); an arrow does not mean deliveries between specific plants. Feed and scrap – CN headings of the metal, not dictionary classes.

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Figure data (table)

Product chain – Welded aluminium alloy tubes

Name	Stage	CN
Unwrought aluminium (feedstock)	Feedstock	7601
Welded aluminium alloy tubes	Class	7608 20 20
Aluminium tube and pipe fittings	Following classes	7609 00 00
aluminium scrap	Scrap	7602

Producers

Each entry from a primary document (class A/B/C and document page), with the verification date and the entity controlling the plant (GLEIF Level 2 or company documents).

0

producing plants (incl. outside the EU) of which in the EU-27: 0

0

companies

0

countries

–

non-EU control – plants in the EU-27

Corporate groups (a company without a group counted separately): 0
Non-EU control – plants in the EU-27: 0 of 0 plants with an established controller (0 of 0 producing plants are in the EU-27; plants outside the EU are out of scope of the indicator; ownership control logic and area).
No document states a capacity for this class – no sum is computed.

No plants with a primary document in the register for this class.

A plant without a document naming the class is not entered – no entry does not mean no production. Plants of the metal in the register: Companies – Aluminium

Alloys and standards

Materials, product standards and synonyms of this class from the alloy and standard glossary.

The glossary has no materials of this class with a documented basis yet.

Synonyms

EN

HF seam welded tubes · welded tube

DE

Rohre aus Aluminiumlegierungen, geschweißt (ausg. Hohlprofile) (CN label (DE)) · HF-längsnahtgeschweißte Rohre · geschweißtes Rohr

Full alloy and standard glossary →

Related

• Flow analysis: EU-27 Aluminium Flows
• Country aluminium flow analyses: Aluminium Flows in Austria · Aluminium Flows in France · Aluminium Flows in Germany · Aluminium Flows in Italy · Aluminium Flows in Poland
• Ownership control of the producers: Ownership control (product filter)
• Companies list and map filtered to this class: Companies

Data freshness

Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (annual data)

latest data: 2025 · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2027-02 (period 2026) full year 2026 – after the December data release (February 2027); annual data may be revised in later releases

Eurostat, Comext DS-045409 (monthly data)

latest data: 2026-08 (intra-EU: 2026-07) · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2026-11-13 (period 2026-09)

Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367

latest data: 2025 · retrieved: 2026-10-26 · next update: 2027-07 (period 2026) first release of annual data in mid-July of the following year; revisions – mid-month (ESMS metadata prom_esms, item 8.1)

How to cite

Method note

Entry only from a primary document

A class is assigned to a plant only when a primary document names it – a product data sheet, an annual report, a register or a company page describing the product – with the document page and a reliability class (A, B or C). Press and company directories without a company document are not a basis for an entry.

Assignment from a location document

When a company document describes the product and only a location page points to the plant, the assignment of the product to the plant is an inference – the source then has class C and the entry awaits confirmation by a plant document.

“Full range” is not an entry

A general claim (“full range of copper products”) without the class, dimensions or alloys does not create an entry. A plant without an entry may make the class – the register does not know.

Capacity only from a document

Class capacity (kt) – only when a document states it; no estimates and no split of a whole plant’s capacity into classes. The sum covers only plants with a stated capacity and is a lower bound – always given with the number of plants it covers.

Entry status

Produced, planned production (investment announced in a document), production ended. A closed plant – production ended. Key figures – “produced” only.

Ownership control

The entity controlling the plant and its country – as in Ownership control (GLEIF Level 2, GLEIF exceptions, groups from company documents). The non-EU share is computed only among producers located in the EU-27 with an established controller (as the default area of Ownership control); a plant outside the EU – e.g. in Türkiye, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or Serbia – is out of scope of the indicator, although it counts among plants and countries.

Trade and production

Eurostat Comext: EU-27 extra-EU and intra-EU trade (arrivals reported by EU countries), CN codes of the class (sum of the codes), tonnes and euro, 2005–2025 plus the current incomplete year (hollow marker, no line); sold production – PRODCOM (a code may cover several classes); apparent consumption = production + extra-EU imports − extra-EU exports within the PRODCOM code scope. A CN code may cover products of other classes (e.g. rods and sections in one code) – trade describes CN codes, not the plants of the register.

Metals kept apart

Each class belongs to one metal (aluminium, copper, zinc). Each metal has its own page; the metals share a family layout – five semi-finished product families (wire rod and wire; bars and sections; plate, sheet and strip; foil; tubes), families outside semi-finished products (unwrought alloys – feedstock, powders and dust, chemical compounds, anodes and other articles – currently zinc only) and derived products; split by material within a family. A family without classes of a metal shows “–” with a description in the comparison table. Header figures and trade totals are given separately for each metal – tonnes of different metals are never added up. Derived products (e.g. winding wire, structures, cans, stranded wire, zinc-coated steel, die castings) are marked and are not semi-finished products; tonnes of coated steel are the mass of the product, not of zinc. A class outside the metal trade total (coated steel, zinc oxide, die castings without a CN code) carries a note with the reason.

Counterpart in the other metal

A copper ↔ aluminium substitution pair (e.g. wire, coiled tubes, strip, stranded wire) comes from the dictionary field or from the portal map of pairs. The comparison shows the figures of both classes side by side, without a total, and the application sentence has no figures; a pair does not mean interchangeability in every application.

Links by metal

Copper classes have a form in the R02 forecast and the EU copper flow analysis; aluminium classes – the EU aluminium flow analysis and the country analyses; zinc classes – the EU zinc flow analysis and the country analysis for Poland (the R01 and R02 forecasts cover copper only). An analysis link given with the class takes precedence.

Dataset scope

The dataset covers copper and aluminium semi-finished products and their alloys, and zinc products (titanium-zinc sheet, unwrought alloys, powders and dust, anodes, derived products) at plants of the Companies register. Counts of plants, countries and groups and the capacity sum are a lower bound of the market – they grow with further documents.

Pages and Markdown are open to text and data mining with attribution; JSON data – like the other JSON data of the register – are reserved as a database compilation. Trade data: Eurostat (reuse with attribution).

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