According to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the first two months of the current year Italy's steel imports amounted to 2.249 million metric tons, decreasing by 29.7 percent, while its steel exports totaled 2.997 million metric tons, up 10 percent, both compared to the previous year.
Products | Imports | Exports | Balance | |||||
Jan-Feb 2011 | Jan-Feb 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Feb 2011 | Jan-Feb 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Feb 2011 | Jan-Feb 2012 | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 705 | 482 | -31.6 | 113 | 139 | +23 | -592 | -343 |
Long products | 443 | 314 | -29.1 | 509 | 619 | +21.6 | 66 | 305 |
Flat products | 1,811 | 1,213 | -33 | 1,161 | 1,304 | +12.3 | -650 | 91 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 205 | 205 | 0 | 886 | 876 | -1.1 | 681 | 671 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 36 | 35 | -2.8 | 55 | 59 | +7.3 | 19 | 24 |
Total | 3,200 | 2,249 | -29.7 | 2,724 | 2,997 | +10 | -476 | 748 |
(*) 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