Turkey’s HRC exports down 2.5 percent in January-October

Wednesday, 11 December 2019 13:51:38 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

In October this year, Turkey's total hot rolled coil (HRC) exports increased by 38.1 percent to 260,916 metric tons compared to September and were up 16.6 percent year on year, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). These exports had a value of $128.9 million, increasing by 33.7 percent month on month, while declining by 5.4 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. 

In the first 10 months of this year, Turkey's HRC exports amounted to 2.62 million mt, down 2.5 percent, while the value of these exports decreased by 17.7 percent to $1.37 billion, both compared to the same period of 2018.
 
In the first 10 months of the current year, Italy ranked first among Turkey's HRC export destinations, with its HRC imports from Turkey amounting to 866,524 mt, down 16 percent, followed by Spain which received 508,758 mt of HRC from Turkey in the given period, down 9.87 percent year on year.
 
Turkey's top HRC export destinations in the first 10 months of this year are as follows:

Country

Amount (mt)

 

 

 

 

 

 

January-October
2019

January- October
2018

Y-o-y change (%)

October 2019

October 2018

Y-o-y change (%)

Italy

866,524

1,032,708

-16.09

85,043

82,950

2.52

Spain

508,758

564,477

-9.87

77,034

64,502

19.43

Egypt

184,619

78,539

135.07

-

3,024

-99.90

Portugal

183,478

208,305

-11.92

33,991

31,974

6.31

Belgium

127,595

161,113

-20.80

4,636

-

-

Bulgaria

108,750

55,719

95.18

14,206

2,146

561.98

Greece

84,016

90,220

-6.88

14,598

6,279

132.49

Vietnam

63,822

-

-

-

-

-

Pakistan

56,969

-

-

-

-

-

France

53,911

39,272

37.28

-

3,675

 

Turkey's main HRC export destinations in the first ten months of the current year are as follows:

 


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