TUIK: Turkey’s steel import value down 35.2 percent in January

According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in January this year the value of Turkey’s iron and steel imports decreased by 35.2 percent year on year, totaling $1.74 billion. In the given month, iron and steel ranked in fifth place among the most imported products of the country in terms of value.