According to the customs statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in April this year
Turkey's
pig iron imports amounted to 134,153 metric tons, increasing 9.5 percent compared to the previous month and almost triple compared to the same month of 2011.
Turkey's top
pig iron source in April this year was
Ukraine which supplied 109,331 mt of
pig iron to
Turkey, compared to 17,218 mt recorded in the same month of 2011. Meanwhile,
Russia's
pig iron exports to
Turkey in April decreased by 47.4 percent year on year to 18,805 mt.
In the first four months of this year,
Turkey imported 499,656 mt of
pig iron, increasing 58.3 percent compared to the first four months of the previous year. The average import price of
pig iron in January-April was $478/mt, down $42/mt or 8.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the TUIK data.