In January this year, Russian exports of semi-finished steel products increased by 5.4 percent year on year to 1.14 million mt, but declined by 19.4 percent month on month, according to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat).
In particular, in January Russia exported 270,600 mt of semi-finished steel products to Taiwan, 214,600 mt to Turkey and 117,300 mt to Belgium.