In April this year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume increased by 8.0 percent month on month to 366,422 mt, up by 501.7 percent year on year, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $220.73 million, increasing by 10.9 percent month on month and up by 689.0 percent year on year.
In the January-April period of this year, Turkey's billet import volume amounted to 1.29 million mt, increasing by 165.3 percent, while the value of these imports increased by 240.8 percent to $732.67 million, both year on year.
In the given period, Turkey imported 666,605 mt of billet and bloom from Russia, up 158.16 percent year on year, with Russia ranking as Turkey's leading billet and bloom import source, ahead of Ukraine which supplied 237,189 mt in the given period.
Turkey's top billet and bloom import sources in January-April are as follows:
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
January-April 2021 |
January-April 2020 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
April 2021 |
April 2020 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
Russia |
666,605 |
258,215 |
158.16 |
152,568 |
18,252 |
735.90 |
Ukraine |
237,189 |
177,839 |
33.37 |
69,211 |
36,378 |
90.26 |
Qatar |
97,019 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Oman |
92,319 |
- |
- |
54,975 |
- |
- |
Algeria |
69,208 |
- |
- |
60,528 |
- |
- |
India |
29,954 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Turkey's main billet and bloom sources on country basis in the January-April period of this year are presented below:
