In the January-June period of this year, Ukraine exported 796,582 mt of pig iron, down 41.3 percent compared to the corresponding period in 2014, worth a total of $217.953 million, down 56.2 percent year on year, according to the data released by State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
In terms of value, the exports mostly went to Italy (29.43 percent), Turkey (23.93 percent) and the US (14.09 percent).
In the January-June period of this year, Ukraine imported 2,699 mt of pig iron, down 22.4 percent year on year, worth a total of $924,000, down 38.6 percent year on year. The main supplier of pig iron imports in the given period was Russia, which supplied 92.76 percent of the total imports in terms of value.