According to the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the first quarter of the current year Italy's steel imports amounted to 3.54 million metric tons, decreasing by 29 percent, while its steel exports totaled 4.808 million metric tons, up 9.6 percent, both compared to the same period of the previous year.
Products | Imports | Exports | Balance | |||||
Jan-Mar 2011 | Jan- Mar 2012 | Change (%) | Jan- Mar 2011 | Jan- Mar 2012 | Change (%) | Jan- Mar 2011 | Jan- Mar 2012 | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 1,038 | 746 | -28.1 | 204 | 207 | +1.5 | -834 | -539 |
Long products | 674 | 499 | -26 | 857 | 1,045 | +21.9 | 183 | 546 |
Flat products | 2,886 | 1,929 | -33.2 | 1,892 | 2,129 | +12.5 | -994 | 200 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 337 | 313 | -7.1 | 1,344 | 1,329 | -1.1 | 1,007 | 1,016 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 54 | 53 | -1.9 | 91 | 98 | +7.7 | 37 | 45 |
Total | 4,989 | 3,540 | -29 | 4,388 | 4,808 | +9.6 | -601 | 1,268 |
(*) 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