Italy’s overall steel exports up 9.3% in Jan-Apr, imports decline

Wednesday, 04 July 2012 17:27:59 (GMT+3)   |  
       

According to the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the January-April period this year Italy's overall steel imports totaled 4.698 million metric tons, decreasing by 29.1 percent, while its steel exports amounted to 6.407 million metric tons, up 9.3 percent, both compared to the previous year.

Italy's long steel exports in the given period totaled 1,1381,000 mt, up 18.5 percent, while its long steel imports amounted to 650,000 mt, down 27.6 percent, year on year. On the other hand, Italian flat steel exports in the first four months reached 2,900,000 mt, up 14.3 percent, while flat steel imports totaled 2,509,000 mt, down 34.7 percent, both on year-on-year basis.    

 

Products

Imports

Exports

Balance

Jan-Apr 2011

Jan-Apr 2012

Change (%)

Jan-Apr 2011

Jan-Apr 2012

Change (%)

Jan-Apr 2011

Jan-Apr 2012

Ingots and semi-finished products

1,362

1,063

-22

287

271

-5.6

-1,075

-792

Long products

898

650

-27.6

1,165

1,381

+18.5

267

731

Flat products

3,842

2,509

-34.7

2,537

2,900

+14.3

-1,305

391

1st manufacturing products (*)

448

407

-9.2

1,749

1,725

-1.4

1,301

1,318

2nd manufacturing products (**)

73

69

-5.5

125

130

+4

52

61

Total

6,623

4,698

-29.1

5,863

6,407

+9.3

-760

1,709

 

(*) 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


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