Japan's domestic steel product orders down 4.37 percent in April

Friday, 19 June 2015 16:07:07 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

In April this year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.52 million metric tons, down 4.37 percent compared to April 2014, according to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF). Meanwhile, in the January-April period of the current year, domestic steel product orders in Japan decreased by 6.5 percent year on year to 18.04 million metric tons.
 
In April this year, ordinary steel product orders in Japan booked by the domestic construction sector decreased by 8.5 percent to 948,087 metric tons, while steel product including special steel orders booked by the Japanese automotive sector amounted to 1.02 million metric tons, down 7.3 percent, both on year-on-year basis. Japan's shipbuilding industry booked 379,364 metric tons of ordinary steel products in the given month, up 4.5 percent compared to April 2014.

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