Turkey’s billet imports up 22.2 percent in January-July

Tuesday, 06 September 2016 17:44:29 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

In July this year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume increased by 9.25 percent year on year to 335,281 mt, down 35.8 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $121.7 million, down 1.12 percent year on year and falling by 36.2 percent compared to the previous month.


 
In the January-July period this year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume increased by 22.2 percent year on year to 3.04 million mt, while the value of these imports totaled $957.8 million, down 7.1 percent year on year.
 
In the first seven months of this year, Turkey imported 1,001,858 mt of billet and bloom from Russia, up 5.71 percent year on year, with Russia ranking as Turkey's leading billet and bloom import source, ahead of Ukraine which supplied 913,175 mt in the given period.
 
Turkey's top billet and bloom import sources in the first seven months of the current year are as follows:

 

Country

Amount (mt)

     
 

Jan-Jul 2016

Jan-Jul 2015

Y-o-y change (%)

July 2016

July 2015

Y-o-y change (%)

Russia

1,001,858

947,763

5.71

82,208

93,416

-12.00

Ukraine

913,175

1,063,532

-14.14

124,636

121,925

2.22

China

890,814

151,712

487.17

101,239

41,702

142.77

Iran

49,084

10,130

384.54

20,268

-

-

Spain

37,917

-

-

-

-

-

Brazil

30,521

532

-

177

51

247.06

UAE

30,401

-

-

-

-

-

Kazakhstan

21,025

-

-

-

-

-

Turkey's main billet and bloom sources on country basis in the January-July period this year are presented below:


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