Turkey’s billet imports down 35.6 percent in Jan-Feb

Monday, 09 April 2018 15:20:41 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

In February this year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume decreased by 23.9 percent year on year to 114,399 mt, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $64 million, up 0.9 percent year on year.

In the first two months of the current year, Turkey's billet import volume amounted to 265,714 mt, falling by 35.6 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 14.4 percent to $144.3 million, both year on year.

In the given period, Turkey imported 113,279 mt of billet and bloom from Russia, down 20.49 percent year on year, with Russia ranking as Turkey's leading billet and bloom import source, ahead of Ukraine which supplied 88,395 mt in the given period.
 
Turkey's top billet and bloom import sources in the January-February period are as follows:

Country

Amount (mt)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan-Feb

2018

Jan-Feb

2017

Y-o-y change (%)

October 2017

October 2016

Y-o-y change (%)

Russia

113,279

142,477

-20.49

37,607

33,123

13.54

Ukraine

88,395

205,883

-57.07

22,545

91,947

-75.48

Brazil

41,117

20,167

103.88

40,944

15,199

169.39

Venezuela

10,566

-

-

10,566

-

-

Georgia

7,029

13,537

-48.08

180

5,206

-96.54

Germany

2,839

2,921

-

1,392

1,570

-11.34

India

898

-

-

505

-

-

Turkey's main billet and bloom sources on country basis in the January-February period are presented below:


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