According to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the January-June period this year Italy's steel imports amounted to 7.415 million metric tons, decreasing by 27.4 percent, while its steel exports totaled 9.915 million metric tons, up 10.3 percent, both compared to the same period of the previous year.
Italy's external steel trade balance is increasingly positive, reaching a surplus of 2.5 million mt for the given period.
Products | Imports | Exports | Balance | |||||
Jan-Jun 2011 | Jan-Jun 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Jun 2011 | Jan-Jun 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Jun 2011 | Jan-Jun 2012 | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 2,081 | 1,618 | -22.2 | 431 | 468 | +8.6 | -1,650 | -1,150 |
Long products | 1,362 | 985 | -27.7 | 1,790 | 2,110 | +17.9 | 428 | 1,125 |
Flat products | 5,953 | 4,079 | -31.5 | 3,961 | 4,534 | +14.5 | -1,992 | 455 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 703 | 625 | -11.1 | 2,614 | 2,597 | -0.7 | 1,911 | 1,972 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 115 | 108 | -6.1 | 195 | 206 | +5.6 | 80 | 98 |
Total | 10,214 | 7,415 | -27.4 | 8,991 | 9,915 | +10.3 | -1,223 | 2,500 |
(*) 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