In the first three months of 2007, Russia utilized 34 percent of the steel quota allocated to it by the European Union (EU), while Ukraine utilized 31 percent of its revised EU quota. On the other hand, Kazakhstan utilized only 1.21 percent of its allocation.
According to the latest statistics, Russia exported a total of 769,540 tons of steel products to the EU in the first three months of 2007. The quota allocated to Russia for 2007 is 2,273,000 tons.
Specifically, Russia used 39 percent of its hot rolled coil quota (361,380 of 931,000 allotted tons), 37 percent of its plate quota (72,800 of 195,000 allotted tons), 14 percent of its alloy sheet quota (13,640 of 100,000 allotted tons), nine percent of its beam quota (4,160 of 46,000 allotted tons), and 23 percent of its wire rod quota (41,000 of 177,000 allotted tons).
With regard to Ukraine, it exported a total of 314,605 tons of steel products to the EU in the first three months of 2007, filling 31 percent of its total quota of 1,004,500 tons.
When the figures are broken down, we see that Ukraine filled 24 percent of its coil quota (37,000 of 154,000 allotted tons), 43 percent of its heavy plate quota (152,000 of 357,000 allotted tons), 34 percent of its beam quota (10,540 of 30,750 allotted tons), and 16 percent of its wire rod quota (20,275 of 128,125 allotted tons).
Finally, Kazakhstan exported a total of 2,500 tons of steel products to the EU in the first three months of 2007, filling only 1.21 percent of its total quota of 205,000 tons.
Specifically, Kazakhstan filled 2.9 percent of its hot rolled coil quota (2,500 of 87,125 allotted tons), while it has not used its other flat rolled quota of 118,000 tons.
*All numbers are given in round figures.
* All numbers are based on the figures released by official European Union sources