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| | American Metal Market: Japan's Showa Denko sees aluminum 'balanced.' - supply and demand balance forecasted for aluminum |
 | | The report prepared by Showa Denko's aluminum division projects total world supply of primary aluminum this year at 15,419,000 metric tons against total demand of 15,440,000 tons, or a slight shortfall of 21,000 tons. |
 | | As the result, Showa Denko estimates, the four European countries will have a 21-percent share of the free world market; the United States, 30 percent; Japan, 15 percent; and other countries, 34 percent. |
 | | The report is projecting a continued downtrend in imports of ordinary grade primary aluminum from the United States which are expected to drop to 291,000 tons in 1994 from last year's 406,000 tons, while imports from Russia are forecast to triple to 169,000 tons over last year's 54,000 tons. |
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