South Korean heavy steel
plate imports reached 4,183,110 mt in 2011, including 2,379,266 mt from
China, accounting for 57 percent of the country's total heavy
plate imports and up 8.7 percent compared to 2,188,000 mt in 2010, as reported by South Korean media sources.
South Korea's heavy steel
plate imports from
China increased in 2011 due to the relatively low prices of Chinese
plate, while heavy
plate imports from Japan in the given year totaled 1,752,000 mt, equal to 42 percent of the overall import figure.