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Italy’s steel exports to non-EU countries up 26.9 percent in Jan-Aug

Tuesday, 02 October 2012 17:32:31 (GMT+3)   |  
       

According to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the first eight months of the current year Italy's steel exports to non-EU destinations reached 4.025 million metric tons, up by 26.9 percent, while its steel imports from non-EU countries totaled 4.137 million metric tons, down 38.8 percent, both compared to the same period of 2011.

Long steel exports to countries outside the EU in the abovementioned period reached 1.353 million mt, up 57.3 percent, while flat steel exports to these countries reached 1.478 million mt, up 30.8 percent, both year on year.

 

Products

Imports

Exports

Balance

Jan-Aug 2011

Jan-Aug 2012

Change (%)

Jan-Aug 2011

Jan-Aug 2012

Change (%)

Jan-Aug 2011

Jan-Aug 2012

Ingots and semi-finished products

2,126

1,829

-14

161

181

12.4

-1,965

1,648

Long products

466

262

-43.8

860

1,353

57.3

394

1,091

Flat products

3,819

1,752

-54.1

1,130

1,478

30.8

-2,689

-274

1st manufacturing products (*)

287

242

-15.7

885

861

-2.7

598

619

2nd manufacturing products (**)

57

52

-8.8

135

152

12.6

78

100

Total

6,755

4,137

-38.8

3,171

4,025

26.9

-3,584

-112

(*) 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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