In particular, Italy's flat steel product imports from non-EU countries almost doubled (up 96.9 percent) in the January-April period this year compared to the same period of 2012, while flat steel product exports to non-EU destinations decreased by 27.5 percent and long product exports to these countries rose by 3.5 percent, both year on year.
Products |
Imports non-EU |
Exports non-EU |
Balance |
|||||
Jan-Apr 2012 |
Jan-Apr 2013 |
Change (%) |
Jan-Apr 2012 |
Jan-Apr 2013 |
Change (%) |
Jan-Apr 2012 |
Jan-Apr 2013 |
|
Ingots and semi-finished products |
899 |
987 |
9.8 |
71 |
102 |
43.7 |
-828 |
-885 |
Long products |
160 |
153 |
-4.4 |
631 |
653 |
3.5 |
471 |
500 |
Flat products |
687 |
1,353 |
96.9 |
652 |
473 |
-27.5 |
-35 |
-880 |
1st manufacturing products (*) |
113 |
125 |
10.6 |
440 |
345 |
-21.6 |
327 |
220 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) |
24 |
24 |
= |
73 |
80 |
9.6 |
49 |
56 |
Total |
1,883 |
2,642 |
40.3 |
1,867 |
1,653 |
-11.5 |
-16 |
-989 |
(*) Seamless pipes, welded pipes, forged bars, cold drawn sections and bars, drawn wire, cold rolled strips, welded sections, drawn wire.
(**) Flanges, pipe fittings, mining sections, diamond plates, pig iron powder
Units of measurement are thousand metric tons