According to the data provided by the National Statistics Office of
Georgia (Geostat), in the first quarter of this year, there is no ferrous
scrap among the most exported products from
Georgia to
Turkey, the country's main trading partner.
Georgia's ferrous
scrap exports to
Turkey have been declining on a cumulative basis since the second half of 2011.
However,
Georgia exported 10,041 mt of semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel to
Turkey in the first quarter of this year, with a value of $4.85 million, with no record of exports of the products in question to
Turkey in the same period of 2012.
Meanwhile, in the first quarter of the current year ferroalloys were not included either among
Georgia's most exported products to
Turkey, while in the January-February period of the current year
Georgia's ferroalloy exports to
Turkey were down to 1,644 mt from 5,505 mt in January-February 2012.