Italy’s non-EU steel imports almost halved in January

Monday, 05 March 2012 15:08:30 (GMT+3)   |  
       

According to the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in January this year Italy's steel imports from non-European Union (EU) countries amounted to 450,000 metric tons, decreasing by 47.5 percent year on year, while its steel exports to non-EU destinations totaled 400,000 metric tons, up 19.8 percent year on year.

In January, Italy's semi-finished steel product imports from non-EU countries totaled 206,000 metric tons, down 29.7 percent year on year. Meanwhile, the country's semi-finished steel product exports to countries outside the EU in the given month amounted to 11,000 metric tons, decreasing by 38.9 percent year on year.

In the month in question, Italy's imports of long steel products from non-EU countries went down by 26.3 percent to 42,000 metric tons, while its long steel product exports to non-EU destinations totaled 120,000 metric tons, up 66.7 percent, both year on year.

On the other hand, in January Italy's flat steel product imports from non-EU sources came to 171,000 metric tons, down 63.8 percent as compared to January 2011, while its flat steel product exports amounted to 153,000 metric tons, with a 15 percent increase year on year.

Product

Imports

Exports

Balance

Jan 2011

Jan 2012

Change y-o-y (%)

Jan 2011

Jan 2012

Change y-o-y (%)

Jan 2011

Jan 2012

Ingots and semi-finished products

293

206

-29.7

18

11

-38.9

-275

-195

Long products

57

42

-26.3

72

120

66.7

15

78

Flat products

472

171

-63.8

133

153

15

-339

-18

1st manufacturing products (*)

27

24

-11.1

100

103

3

73

79

2nd manufacturing products (**)

8

7

-12.5

11

13

18.2

3

6

Total

857

450

-47.5

334

400

19.8

-523

-50

 

(*) 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.


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