According to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the first 10 months of 2011 Italy's steel imports reached 15.28 million metric tons, increasing by 9.8 percent, while its steel exports totaled 14.39 million metric tons, up 12.7 percent, both compared to January-October 2010.
Products | Imports | Exports | Balance | |||||
Jan-Oct 2010 | Jan-Oct 2011 | Change (%) | Jan-Oct 2010 | Jan-Oct 2011 | Change (%) | Jan-Oct 2010 | Jan-Oct 2011 | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 3,021 | 3,137 | 3.8 | 794 | 773 | -2.6 | -2,227 | -2,364 |
Long products | 1,810 | 2,050 | 13.3 | 2,624 | 2,906 | 10.7 | 814 | 856 |
Flat products | 7,979 | 8,784 | 10.1 | 5,428 | 6,280 | 15.7 | -2,551 | -2,504 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 934 | 1,121 | 20 | 3,634 | 4,116 | 13.3 | 2.700 | 2,995 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 179 | 192 | 7.3 | 288 | 320 | 11.1 | 109 | 128 |
Total | 13,923 | 15,284 | 9.8 | 12,768 | 14,395 | 12.7 | -1,155 | -889 |
(*) Seamless pipes, welded pipes, forged bars, cold drawn sections and bars, drawn wire, cold rolled strips, welded sections, drawn wire.
(**) Flanges, pipe fittings, mining sections, diamond plates, pig iron powder
Units of measurement are thousand metric tons