In February this year, Italy's steel exports to non-EU countries totaled 832,000 metric tons, up by 26.8 percent, while its steel imports from non-EU sources totaled 1,155,000 metric tons, down by 8.7 percent, both year on year, according to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai.
The details are presented in the following table:
Products | Imports non-EU | Exports non-EU | Balance | |||||
Feb 2013 | Feb 2014 | Change (%) | Feb 2013 | Feb 2014 | Change (%) | Feb 2013 | Feb 2014 | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 504 | 458 | - 9.1 | 45 | 18 | -60 | -459 | -440 |
Long products | 85 | 75 | -11.8 | 233 | 359 | 54.1 | 148 | 284 |
Flat products | 606 | 535 | -11.7 | 179 | 242 | 35.2 | -427 | -293 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 58 | 74 | 27.6 | 161 | 179 | 11.2 | 103 | 105 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 12 | 13 | 8.3 | 38 | 34 | -10.5 | 26 | 21 |
Total | 1,265 | 1,155 | -8.7 | 656 | 832 | 26.8 | -609 | -323 |
(*) 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.