According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in October this year Turkey's coking coal imports totaled 220,445 mt, down by more than half on year on year and month on month basis. Meanwhile, the value of these imports was $31.74 million, down 64.19 percent year on year.
In the first 10 months of the current year, Turkey's coking coal imports totaled 4.13 million metric tons, increasing 6.08 percent compared to the same period of 2012, while the value of these imports totaled $663.25 million, decreasing by 23.44 percent year on year.
In the January-October period of this year, Turkey's coking coal imports from the US increased by 30.53 percent to 2.58 million mt, imports from Australia decreased by 20.28 percent to 905,363 mt and imports from Canada decreased by 31.26 percent to 338,707 mt, all compared with the same period of the previous year. In addition, in October this year the US was the only source for Turkey's coking coal imports.
Turkey's coking coal import sources in January-October this year:
| Country | Amount (mt) | |||
| Jan-Oct. 2013 | Jan-Oct. 2012 | Oct. 13 | Oct. 12 | |
| US | 2,572,147 | 1,970,594 | 220,445 | 333,350 |
| Australia | 905,363 | 1,135,667 | - | 86,935 |
| Canada | 338,707 | 492,764 | - | - |
| Indonesia | 147,047 | - | - | - |
| Mozambique | 87,072 | 76,373 | - | |
| Ukraine | 71,503 | 36,750 | - | 36,750 |
| Russia | 3,000 | - | - | - |