According to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in January this year Italy's steel imports amounted to 1.063 million metric tons, decreasing by 32.5 percent, while its steel exports totaled 1.387 million metric tons, up 10.9 percent, both compared to the same month of the previous year.
Products |
Imports |
Exports |
Balance |
|||||
Jan 2011 |
Jan 2012 |
Change (%) |
Jan 2011 |
Jan 2012 |
Change (%) |
Jan 2011 |
Jan 2012 |
|
Ingots and semi-finished products |
379 |
244 |
-35.6 |
64 |
65 |
+1.6 |
-315 |
-179 |
Long products |
198 |
145 |
-26.8 |
223 |
297 |
+33.2 |
25 |
152 |
Flat products |
885 |
564 |
-36.3 |
538 |
576 |
+7.1 |
-347 |
12 |
1st manufacturing products (*) |
94 |
93 |
-1.1 |
402 |
423 |
+5.2 |
308 |
330 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) |
18 |
17 |
-5.6 |
24 |
26 |
+8.3 |
6 |
9 |
Total |
1,574 |
1,063 |
-32.5 |
1,251 |
1,387 |
10.9 |
-323 |
324 |
(*) 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.