Turkey’s billet imports down 52.7 percent in January-September

In September this year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume decreased by 53.3 percent year on year to 160,276 mt, down 6.7 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $76.2 million, down 35.7 percent year on year and decreasing by 2.5 percent compared to the previous month.

In the first nine months of the current year, Turkey's billet import volume amounted to 1.76 million mt, falling by 52.7 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 36.7 percent to $752.8 million, both year on year.
 
In the given period, Turkey imported 660,957 mt of billet and bloom from Ukraine, down 40.3 percent year on year, with Ukraine ranking as Turkey's leading billet and bloom import source, ahead of Russia which supplied 544,531 mt in the given period.
 
Turkey's top billet and bloom import sources in the January-September period of this year are as follows:

Turkey's main billet and bloom sources on country basis in the first nine months of this year are presented below: