In December last year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume increased by 122 percent month on month to 242,170 mt, up by 89.6 percent year on year, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $100.46 million, up 110.6 percent month on month and up 52.4 percent year on year.
In 2019, Turkey's billet import volume amounted to 1.62 million mt, falling by 40.3 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 48.4 percent to $771.12 million, both year on year.
In the given period, Turkey imported 1 million mt of billet and bloom from Russia, down 31.02 percent year on year, with Russia ranking as Turkey's leading billet and bloom import source, ahead of Ukraine which supplied 387,519 mt in the given period.
Turkey's top billet and bloom import sources in 2019 are as follows:
|
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jan-Dec 2019 |
Jan- Dec 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
December 2019 |
December 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
|
Russia |
1,008,363 |
1,461,816 |
-31.02 |
152,041 |
56,407 |
169.54 |
|
Ukraine |
387,519 |
697,960 |
-44.48 |
69,666 |
55,340 |
25.89 |
|
Georgia |
73,167 |
47,239 |
54.89 |
3,806 |
1,013 |
275.72 |
|
Azerbaijan |
25,373 |
25,546 |
-0.68 |
- |
4,693 |
- |
|
Oman |
23,358 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
Italy |
21,720 |
41,009 |
-47.04 |
12,518 |
453 |
- |
|
Belarus |
20,386 |
60,463 |
-66.28 |
- |
- |
- |
|
Germany |
17,735 |
32,824 |
-45.97 |
1,734 |
1,963 |
-11.67 |
|
Libya |
14,931 |
3,347 |
346.10 |
- |
- |
- |
|
Bosnia-Herzegovina |
10,344 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Turkey's main billet and bloom sources on country basis in 2019 are presented below:
