In June this year, China’s export volumes of steel bars, angles/channels, wire rods and steel plates amounted to 4.87 million mt, 660,000 mt, 220,000 mt, and 4.15 million mt, up 39.0 percent, 20.0 percent, 15.1 percent, and 14.5 percent, respectively, year on year, as announced by the Chinese customs authorities.
In the first half of the current year, China’s export volumes of steel bars, angles/channels, wire rods and steel plates totaled 23.77 million mt, 2.83 million mt, 1.17 million mt, and 23.59 million mt, increasing by 27.6 percent, 1.9 percent, 1.9 percent, and decreasing by 0.3 percent, respectively, year on year.
In June this year, China exported 10.94 million mt of finished steel, up 23.1 percent year on year, while the finished steel export volume in the first half this year totaled 57.12 million mt, increasing by 9.0 percent year on year, as previously announced by Chinese customs.