# Welded aluminium alloy tubes

Welded aluminium alloy tubes made from strip (radiator and heat-exchanger tubes for vehicles, structural tubes).

- Metal: Aluminium
- Family: Tubes · Aluminium alloys – https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/aluminium#rodzina-tubes
- CN: 7608 20 20
- PRODCOM: 24.42.26.50
- Data as of: 2026-10-25, version 2.40
- Page: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded
- JSON: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded.json

## Producers – key figures

- producing plants (incl. outside the EU): 0 (of which in the EU-27: 0)
- companies: 0
- countries: 0
- Corporate groups (a company without a group counted separately): 0
- non-EU control – plants in the EU-27: – – 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).
- documented capacity (lower bound): No document states a capacity for this class – no sum is computed.

Figures cover entries “produced”; planned and ended – separately. Figures are a lower bound: a plant without a document naming the class is not entered.

## Producers

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

## Key figures of the class, 2025

- **Extra-EU imports, 2025**: 2,876 t (EUR 23.3 million)
- **Extra-EU exports, 2025**: 5,890 t (EUR 47.4 million)
- **Intra-EU arrivals, 2025**: 18.6 thousand t (EUR 118 million) – arrivals reported by EU countries; intra-EU dispatches: 19.9 thousand t
- **EU-27 production (PRODCOM), 2025**: 152 thousand t (EUR 893 million) – Eurostat estimate (E); PRODCOM code shared by 2 classes – production of the whole group
- **Plants and countries**: 0 plants (countries: 0) – producing plants according to primary documents (a lower bound)
- **Rank among aluminium classes, 2025**: #23 of 26 (by extra-EU export mass) – imports: #24 of 26; exports: #23 of 26; production (PRODCOM code group): #6 of 9; code shared by 2 classes

In 2025 EU-27 imports from outside the EU amounted to 2,876 t (EUR 23.3 million) and exports to 5,890 t (EUR 47.4 million); the mass balance was +3,014 t (export surplus). Intra-EU arrivals (reported by EU countries) – 18.6 thousand t. Main non-EU suppliers: South Africa (35.6%), Switzerland (30.1%) and China (13.2%). Main non-EU customers: Türkiye (21.0%), United States (20.0%) and United Kingdom (14.5%). Between 2015 and 2025 import mass changed by −70.6% and export mass by −41.5%. EU-27 sold production according to PRODCOM (codes 24.42.26.30, 24.42.26.50, shared with classes: “Extruded and drawn aluminium tubes”) was 152 thousand t in 2025 (EUR 893 million; a Eurostat estimate). EU-27 apparent consumption within the scope of the group PRODCOM codes (sold production + non-EU imports − non-EU exports; excluding production for own use): 153 thousand t.

## What you should know about this data

- The class covers CN code 7608 20 20 (CN 2026); PRODCOM codes 24.42.26.30, 24.42.26.50 also cover classes: “Extruded and drawn aluminium tubes” – production refers to the whole group.
- Years 2005 without trade figures (null, a gap – not zero): predecessor code 7608 20 10 also covered classes “Extruded and drawn aluminium tubes”; a comparable series – for the class group “Extruded and drawn aluminium tubes”, “Welded aluminium alloy tubes” (comparable_group field).
- PRODCOM (sold production, 24.42.26.30, 24.42.26.50): EU-27 quantity in 2021–2025 is a Eurostat estimate (E); EU-27 quantity in 2011–2012, 2017, 2019, 2023–2024 rounded by Eurostat (R; value ± rounding base); EU-27 quantity in 2008 without a figure – the Eurostat aggregate (561 thousand t) deviates from the series (jump or unit value) with no explanation in country data (X); country data with an unreliable unit value (X; quantity or value without a figure): IE 2025; years without EU-27 quantity: 2005, 2008 (confidentiality, no code or an unreliable value – a gap, not zero; the series does not link PRODCOM list changes before 2024 – years before the code was introduced have no figure); quantity confidential (C) in 2025 in 14 countries (AT, BE, BG, CZ, DE, DK, FR, GR, HU, LV, NL, PL, SE, SI) – confidential values are not filled in; apparent consumption is based on sold production – excluding output used within the producing plant (e.g. wire rod drawn into wire), which understates the result for semi-finished products.
- Unit value (EUR/t) is the ratio of trade value to mass – it depends on the product mix, metal content and partner structure; it is not a market price.
- Year 2026 – monthly data: extra-EU January–August, intra-EU January–July (incomplete, provisional year).

## 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).

| Year | Imports (t) – extra-EU | Exports (t) – extra-EU | Imports (EUR) | Exports (EUR) | Imports (t) – intra-EU | Exports (t) – intra-EU | Import unit value (EUR/t) | Export unit value (EUR/t) |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2005 | gap | gap | gap | gap | gap | gap | gap | gap |
| 2006 | 10,753 | 12,723 | 66,634,802 | 69,768,025 | 48,775 | 29,783 | 6,197 | 5,483 |
| 2007 | 11,272 | 12,418 | 75,146,431 | 68,674,505 | 96,195 | 29,751 | 6,667 | 5,530 |
| 2008 | 11,025 | 13,677 | 70,707,684 | 77,183,530 | 215,080 | 26,707 | 6,413 | 5,643 |
| 2009 | 8,810 | 9,088 | 56,693,628 | 54,321,481 | 198,564 | 19,157 | 6,435 | 5,978 |
| 2010 | 12,443 | 11,237 | 69,377,565 | 64,978,685 | 212,637 | 21,919 | 5,576 | 5,782 |
| 2011 | 14,833 | 14,090 | 82,423,390 | 76,402,084 | 137,035 | 20,758 | 5,557 | 5,423 |
| 2012 | 14,098 | 11,382 | 77,172,242 | 67,858,639 | 39,528 | 22,435 | 5,474 | 5,962 |
| 2013 | 14,972 | 11,712 | 86,609,457 | 62,191,723 | 38,450 | 18,940 | 5,785 | 5,310 |
| 2014 | 14,076 | 12,360 | 80,193,894 | 66,325,471 | 34,317 | 18,917 | 5,697 | 5,366 |
| 2015 | 9,781 | 10,063 | 51,216,854 | 56,003,739 | 34,949 | 19,531 | 5,237 | 5,565 |
| 2016 | 10,042 | 10,527 | 50,127,488 | 56,539,731 | 33,391 | 18,730 | 4,992 | 5,371 |
| 2017 | 11,468 | 10,300 | 55,545,551 | 53,417,342 | 30,865 | 21,544 | 4,844 | 5,186 |
| 2018 | 10,331 | 11,963 | 56,299,918 | 64,006,937 | 27,924 | 33,859 | 5,449 | 5,350 |
| 2019 | 6,063 | 10,547 | 39,474,716 | 63,701,122 | 26,239 | 31,854 | 6,511 | 6,040 |
| 2020 | 4,676 | 9,032 | 28,093,968 | 49,379,214 | 25,556 | 29,189 | 6,008 | 5,467 |
| 2021 | 5,133 | 9,718 | 29,217,348 | 53,464,066 | 26,027 | 36,332 | 5,692 | 5,502 |
| 2022 | 4,017 | 9,193 | 32,118,419 | 60,164,017 | 23,893 | 30,926 | 7,996 | 6,544 |
| 2023 | 2,977 | 7,760 | 26,757,542 | 54,395,105 | 18,711 | 22,834 | 8,987 | 7,010 |
| 2024 | 2,813 | 7,378 | 22,911,281 | 48,336,349 | 19,655 | 22,713 | 8,145 | 6,551 |
| 2025 | 2,876 | 5,890 | 23,311,689 | 47,416,751 | 18,621 | 19,939 | 8,106 | 8,050 |
| 2026 (2026-01/2026-08) | 1,773 | 3,306 | 16,239,870 | 25,005,874 | 11,526 | 13,000 | 9,160 | 7,563 |

Empty places in the series are gaps (no figure – e.g. a CN code shared with other classes or confidential data), not zeros; figures break the line there.
- Data files: [CSV](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/trade.csv) · [JSON](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/trade.json) · [Metadata](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/trade.metadata.json)

## Class balance in the EU-27, 2025

EU-27 balance in 2025: sold production 152 thousand t, extra-EU imports 29.4 thousand t, extra-EU exports 28.7 thousand t, apparent consumption 153 thousand t; intra-EU trade of the class 18.6 thousand t (loop).

- EU-27 sold production: 152 thousand t (Eurostat estimate (E))
- Extra-EU imports: 29.4 thousand t
- Extra-EU exports: 28.7 thousand t
- Apparent consumption: 153 thousand t
- Intra-EU trade (class): 18.6 thousand t

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.
- Data files: [CSV](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/balance.csv) · [JSON](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/balance.json) · [Metadata](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/balance.metadata.json)

## 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).

| 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 | gap | 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 |

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.
- Data files: [CSV](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/production.csv) · [JSON](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/production.json) · [Metadata](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/production.metadata.json)

## EU-27 countries, 2025

Mass balance of EU-27 countries in 2025: largest export surplus – Belgium (+10.3 thousand t), largest import surplus – Czechia (−5,116 t). Confidential exports (no figure): Portugal.

| Country | Imports (t) | Exports (t) | Balance (t) | Share of EU-27 imports (%) | Share of EU-27 exports (%) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Belgium (BE) | 111 | 10,382 | 10,271 | 0.5 | 40.2 |
| Italy (IT) | 175 | 7,238 | 7,063 | 0.8 | 28.0 |
| Germany (DE) | 4,160 | 5,965 | 1,805 | 19.4 | 23.1 |
| Bulgaria (BG) | 56 | 642 | 586 | 0.3 | 2.5 |
| Sweden (SE) | 23 | 26 | 3 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Malta (MT) | 2 | 0 | -2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Netherlands (NL) | 63 | 55 | -8 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Cyprus (CY) | 10 | 0 | -10 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Lithuania (LT) | 80 | 64 | -16 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Greece (GR) | 44 | 7 | -37 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Ireland (IE) | 41 | 0 | -41 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Estonia (EE) | 85 | 0 | -85 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Romania (RO) | 147 | 61 | -85 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Slovenia (SI) | 122 | 14 | -108 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| Croatia (HR) | 112 | 1 | -111 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Finland (FI) | 164 | 19 | -145 | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| Luxembourg (LU) | 161 | 0 | -161 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| Latvia (LV) | 275 | 0 | -274 | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| Austria (AT) | 569 | 291 | -278 | 2.7 | 1.1 |
| Denmark (DK) | 303 | 6 | -297 | 1.4 | 0.0 |
| Hungary (HU) | 681 | 116 | -565 | 3.2 | 0.5 |
| Slovakia (SK) | 960 | 20 | -940 | 4.5 | 0.1 |
| Spain (ES) | 2,287 | 239 | -2,048 | 10.6 | 0.9 |
| France (FR) | 2,587 | 406 | -2,181 | 12.0 | 1.6 |
| Poland (PL) | 2,895 | 146 | -2,750 | 13.5 | 0.6 |
| Czechia (CZ) | 5,248 | 132 | -5,116 | 24.4 | 0.5 |
| Portugal (PT) | 139 | – | – | 0.7 | – |

## EU-27 countries, 2015

Mass balance of EU-27 countries in 2015: largest export surplus – Italy (+7,941 t), largest import surplus – Czechia (−13.9 thousand t). Confidential exports (no figure): Belgium.

| Country | Imports (t) | Exports (t) | Balance (t) | Share of EU-27 imports (%) | Share of EU-27 exports (%) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| Italy (IT) | 1,951 | 9,891 | 7,941 | 4.4 | 33.4 |
| Germany (DE) | 10,639 | 12,901 | 2,262 | 23.8 | 43.6 |
| Romania (RO) | 153 | 2,242 | 2,088 | 0.3 | 7.6 |
| Bulgaria (BG) | 62 | 940 | 878 | 0.1 | 3.2 |
| Cyprus (CY) | 1 | 0 | -1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Malta (MT) | 2 | 0 | -2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Estonia (EE) | 5 | 0 | -5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Luxembourg (LU) | 11 | 0 | -11 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Croatia (HR) | 14 | 1 | -14 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Lithuania (LT) | 28 | 4 | -24 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Ireland (IE) | 26 | 0 | -26 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Greece (GR) | 31 | 0 | -31 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Sweden (SE) | 261 | 162 | -99 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Finland (FI) | 246 | 79 | -166 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| Slovenia (SI) | 196 | 12 | -185 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| Netherlands (NL) | 279 | 48 | -231 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Latvia (LV) | 258 | 0 | -258 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| Portugal (PT) | 418 | 111 | -308 | 0.9 | 0.4 |
| Hungary (HU) | 382 | 47 | -335 | 0.9 | 0.2 |
| Austria (AT) | 835 | 274 | -561 | 1.9 | 0.9 |
| Denmark (DK) | 583 | 13 | -571 | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| Slovakia (SK) | 1,521 | 357 | -1,164 | 3.4 | 1.2 |
| Spain (ES) | 2,344 | 194 | -2,150 | 5.2 | 0.7 |
| Poland (PL) | 4,694 | 864 | -3,830 | 10.5 | 2.9 |
| France (FR) | 4,535 | 107 | -4,428 | 10.1 | 0.4 |
| Czechia (CZ) | 15,255 | 1,348 | -13,907 | 34.1 | 4.6 |
| Belgium (BE) | 0 | – | – | 0.0 | – |
- Data files: [CSV](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/countries.csv) · [JSON](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/countries.json) · [Metadata](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/countries.metadata.json)

## Intra-EU flows, 2025

48 of 292 flows shown (95.0% of mass) Arrivals without a stated country of consignment (confidential): 0.8 t – not on the map.

| From country | To country | 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 |
Other flows (28) – in the figure CSV file.

## Intra-EU flows, 2015

42 of 213 flows shown (95.2% of mass) Arrivals without a stated country of consignment (confidential): 6.5 t – not on the map.

| From country | To country | Mass (t) | Value (EUR) |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| Belgium | Poland | 4,197 | 11,089,987 |
| Belgium | Germany | 3,739 | 11,896,523 |
| Germany | Czechia | 2,795 | 16,151,696 |
| Denmark | Czechia | 2,736 | 12,447,118 |
| Belgium | France | 2,292 | 7,409,982 |
| Netherlands | Germany | 2,063 | 10,278,473 |
| Italy | France | 1,614 | 4,866,767 |
| Poland | Czechia | 1,472 | 3,732,720 |
| Italy | Czechia | 1,439 | 4,108,540 |
| Italy | Germany | 1,431 | 4,930,874 |
| Italy | Spain | 1,133 | 3,437,837 |
| Belgium | Spain | 924 | 2,819,575 |
| Germany | Slovakia | 779 | 152,026 |
| Bulgaria | Italy | 678 | 513,941 |
| Spain | Czechia | 454 | 2,107,276 |
| Belgium | Slovakia | 382 | 1,524,097 |
| Germany | France | 358 | 2,855,070 |
| Italy | Denmark | 342 | 460,868 |
| Italy | Austria | 316 | 1,099,358 |
| Spain | Germany | 310 | 1,301,247 |
Other flows (22) – in the figure CSV file.
- Data files: [CSV](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/intra-eu-flows.csv) · [JSON](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/intra-eu-flows.json) · [Metadata](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/intra-eu-flows.metadata.json)

## Non-EU partners, 2025

### Non-EU suppliers

HHI (mass with an identified country) 2449 · top three 78.9% · partners: 37 · mass with an identified country 100.0%

| # | 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 |

- Fastest growing, 2020 → 2025: Switzerland 214 → 866 t (+304.1%); Türkiye 115 → 260 t (+126.2%)
- Fastest declining, 2020 → 2025: United Kingdom 358 → 32 t (−90.9%); United States 154 → 46 t (−70.3%); South Africa 2,759 → 1,024 t (−62.9%); China 798 → 379 t (−52.5%)
- New partners: –

### Non-EU customers

HHI (mass with an identified country) 1282 · top three 55.5% · partners: 81 · mass with an identified country 99.9%

| # | Country | Mass (t) | Value (EUR) | Share (%) |
|---:|---|---:|---:|---:|
| 1 | Türkiye | 1,239 | 8,555,735 | 21.0 |
| 2 | United States | 1,180 | 15,009,148 | 20.0 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 851 | 5,692,646 | 14.5 |
| 4 | Morocco | 462 | 2,740,064 | 7.8 |
| 5 | Brazil | 422 | 2,519,924 | 7.2 |
| 6 | China | 404 | 2,813,582 | 6.9 |
| 7 | Mexico | 283 | 1,653,847 | 4.8 |
| 8 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 272 | 1,116,063 | 4.6 |
| 9 | Argentina | 167 | 1,104,204 | 2.8 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 153 | 1,851,790 | 2.6 |

- Fastest growing, 2020 → 2025: Mexico 183 → 283 t (+54.6%); Switzerland 121 → 153 t (+26.0%); Bosnia and Herzegovina 222 → 272 t (+22.8%); Türkiye 1,130 → 1,239 t (+9.6%); Morocco 449 → 462 t (+2.9%)
- Fastest declining, 2020 → 2025: Colombia 113 → 0 t (−100.0%); Russia 431 → 0 t (−100.0%); China 1,589 → 404 t (−74.6%); South Korea 238 → 97 t (−59.3%); United States 2,024 → 1,180 t (−41.7%)
- New partners: Argentina 167 t

- Data files: [CSV](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/partners.csv) · [JSON](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/partners.json) · [Metadata](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded/data/partners.metadata.json)

## Product chain

Chain of the class “Welded aluminium alloy tubes”: preceding classes – –; following classes – Aluminium tube and pipe fittings.

- **Feedstock**: Unwrought aluminium (feedstock) (CN 7601)
- **Class**: [Welded aluminium alloy tubes](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded) (CN 7608 20 20)
- **Following classes**: [Aluminium tube and pipe fittings](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-fitting) (CN 7609 00 00)
- **Scrap**: aluminium scrap (CN 7602)

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.

## Data freshness

- 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)
- Eurostat, PRODCOM DS-059358, DS-059367 – latest data: 2025; retrieved: 2026-10-26; next update: 2027-07 (period 2026)

## How to cite

> ai-waw.com (2026). Welded aluminium alloy tubes – product profile: EU-27 trade, PRODCOM production and producers. Products dataset 2.1 (2026-10-26), class revision 1, SHA-256 f9d848393508…; https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded

- Dataset edition: 2.1 (2026-10-26)
- Dataset SHA-256: `f9d848393508c9dbe833341fc6b3767c4bfe1b6b47bfc70335adfab2703d4c13`
- Class revision: 1 (2026-10-26), SHA-256 `6f14ffbb5d2d623a1271bf4578e960077593a3dbd47a46e879846c2234abfb80`
- BibTeX: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded.bib · RIS: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/al-tube-welded.ris

## Alloys and standards

- The glossary has no materials of this class with a documented basis yet.
- Synonyms EN: HF seam welded tubes; welded tube
- Synonyms DE: Rohre aus Aluminiumlegierungen, geschweißt (ausg. Hohlprofile); HF-längsnahtgeschweißte Rohre; geschweißtes Rohr
- Full alloy and standard glossary: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/glossary.md

## Related

- Flow analysis: [EU-27 Aluminium Flows](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/eu-aluminium-flow-analysis.md)
- Country aluminium flow analyses: [Aluminium Flows in Austria](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/aluminium-flows-austria.md); [Aluminium Flows in France](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/aluminium-flows-france.md); [Aluminium Flows in Germany](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/aluminium-flows-germany.md); [Aluminium Flows in Italy](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/aluminium-flows-italy.md); [Aluminium Flows in Poland](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/aluminium-flows-poland.md)
- Ownership control of the producers: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies/ownership.md?produkt=al-tube-welded
- Companies list and map filtered to this class: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies?produkt=al-tube-welded

## 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).