118 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1985 
 
Table 6.—.-U.5. apparent aluminum supply and consumption 
(Thousand metric tons) 
 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 
Primary production 4,489 3,274 3,353 4,099 3,500 
Changeinstocks:'Aluminumindustry -694 +184 +547 -388 +312 
Imports 848 878 1091 1477 1420 
Secondary recovery:2 
  Newscrap 1,031 884 953 935 912 
  Oldscrap 758 782 820 825 850 
 Totalsupply 6,432 6,002 6,764 6,948 6,994 
Lesstotalexports 787 748 776 734 908 
Apparent aluminum supply available for domestic manufacturing 5,645 5,254
5,988 6,214 6,086 
Apparentconsumption 4,614 4,370 5,035 5,279 5,174 
 
 1Pcsitive figure indicates a decrease in stocks; negative figure indicates
an increase in stocks. 
 2Metallic recovery from purchased, tolled, or imported new and old aluminum
scrap expanded for full industry coverage. 
 3Apparent aluminum supply available for domestic manufacturing less recovery
from purchased new scrap (a measure of consumption in manufactured end products).

 
 
 
 
Table 7.—Distribution of end-use shipments of aluminum products
in
the United States, 
by industry 
 "Preliminary. rRovjsed. 
 ' Net shipments derived by subtracting the sum of producers' domestic receipts
of each mill shape from the domestic industry's gross shipments of that shape.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1983 
 
1984 
 
1985" 
 
 QuantityIndustry (thousand 
Percent 
of 
Quantity 
(thousand 
Percent 
of 
Quantity 
(thousand 
Percent 
of 
metric tons) 
grand 
total 
metric 
tons) 
grand 
total 
metric 
tons) 
grand 
total 
Containers and packaging 1,777 r277 1,829 26.1 1,863 26.9 
Building and construction 1,302 20.3 1,295 18.5 1,381 19.9 
Transportation... T1,062 r165 1,370 19.5 1,364 19.7 
Electrical 589  9.2 677 9.7 642 9.3 
Consumer durables 478 r74 502 7.2 477 6.9 
Machinery and equipment 353  5.5 375 5.4 377 5.4 
Other markets r261 r41 274 3.9 265 3.8 
Statistical adjustment r+35  r5 + 187 2.7 + 16 .2 
  Total to domestic users r5,857 91.2 6,509 93.0 6,385 92.1 
Exports 563 8.8 488 7.0 546 7.9 
 Grandtotal r6,420 100.0 6,997 100.0 6,931 100.0 
 "Preliminary. ~ 
 
 Source: The Aluminum Association Inc. 
 
 
 
 
Table 8.—U.S. net shipments' of aluminum wrought and cast products,
by producers 
(Metric tons) 
 1983 1984 l98S~ 
 
Wrought products: 
 Sheet,plate, foil r3,248,948 3,259,163 3,288,544 
 Extruded rod, bar, pipe, tube, shapes; drawn and welded tubing r1037526
1,182,458 1,240,482 
 Rolled and continuous-cast rod and bar; wire r423024 451,493 378,700 
 Forgings(includingirnpacts) 52,711 65,398 67,180 
 Powder, flake, paste r35,675 44,758 48,670 
 Total r4797884 5,003,270 5,023,576 
 
Castings: 
 Sand r75503 89,651 120,736 
 Permanentmold r137 122 160,566 151,745 
 Die r592,475 679,159 565,017 
 Other r55 881 61,092 36,850 
 Total r860 981 990,468 874,348 
 Grandtotal r5,658,865 5,993,738 5,897,924