In December last year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume increased by 1.9 percent month on month to 82,010 mt, down by 66.5 percent year on year, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $41.41 million, increasing by 6.2 percent month on month and down by 55.3 percent year on year.
In 2020, Turkey's billet import volume amounted to 1.44 million mt, decreasing by 6.5 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 14.0 percent to $628.26 million, both year on year.
In 2020, Turkey imported 922,698 mt of billet and bloom from Russia, down 5.86 percent year on year, with Russia ranking as Turkey's leading billet and bloom import source, ahead of Ukraine which supplied 350,124 mt in the given period.
Turkey's top billet and bloom import sources in 2020 are as follows:
|
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2020 |
2019 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
December 2020 |
December 2019 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
|
Russia |
922,698 |
980,105 |
-5.86 |
24,507 |
150,386 |
-83.70 |
|
Ukraine |
350,124 |
345,008 |
1.48 |
40,948 |
53,180 |
-23.00 |
|
Belarus |
36,465 |
20,386 |
78.87 |
- |
- |
- |
|
Georgia |
34,381 |
73,167 |
-53.01 |
3,969 |
3,807 |
4.26 |
|
Libya |
30,628 |
14,931 |
105.13 |
- |
- |
- |
|
Azerbaijan |
15,493 |
25,372 |
-38.94 |
4,088 |
- |
- |
Turkey's main billet and bloom sources on country basis in 2020 are presented below:
