According to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the first 10 months of the current year Italy's steel exports to non-EU countries reached 5.008 million metric tons, up by 23.3 percent, while its steel imports from non-EU sources totaled 5.075 million metric tons, down 35.9 percent, both compared to the same period of 2011.
The details are presented in the following table:
Products | Imports non-EU | Exports non-EU | Balance | |||||
Jan-Oct 2011 | Jan-Oct 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Oct 2011 | Jan-Oct 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Oct 2011 | Jan-Oct 2012 | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 2,527 | 2,268 | -10.2 | 212 | 235 | 10.8 | -2,315 | -2,033 |
Long products | 558 | 325 | -41.8 | 1,171 | 1,647 | 40.6 | 613 | 1,322 |
Flat products | 4,388 | 2,120 | -51.7 | 1,420 | 1,845 | 29.9 | -2,968 | -275 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 374 | 296 | -20.9 | 1,087 | 1,093 | 0.6 | 713 | 767 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 76 | 66 | -13.2 | 170 | 188 | 10.6 | 94 | 122 |
Total | 7,923 | 5,075 | -35.9 | 4,060 | 5,008 | 23.3 | -3,863 | -67 |
(*) 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