According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in June this year the value of Turkey’s iron and steel imports increased by 26.9 percent year on year, totaling $2.83 billion. In the given month, iron and steel ranked in second place among the most imported products of the country in terms of value.
In the January-June period this year, the value of Turkey’s iron and steel imports totaled $16.76 billion, rising by 30.6 percent compared to the same period of the previous year.