In November this year, China’s export volumes of steel bars, angles/channels, wire rods and steel plates amounted to 2.43 million mt, 470,000 mt, 190,000 mt, and 4.02 million mt, down 41.7 percent, up 24.4 percent, up 9.7 percent, and rising by 2.1 percent, respectively, year on year, as announced by the Chinese customs authorities.
In the January-November period of the current year, China’s export volumes of steel bars, angles/channels, wire rods and steel plates totaled 39.13 million mt, 4.73 million mt, 2.10 million mt, and 43.94 million mt, decreasing by 0.5 percent, down 4.4 percent, up 1.2 percent, and decreasing by 0.4 percent, respectively, year on year.
In November this year, China exported 8.12 million mt of finished steel, down 15.5 percent year on year, while the finished steel export volume in the January-November period this year totaled 100.66 million mt, decreasing by 1.1 percent year on year, as previously announced by Chinese customs.