According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in November this year Turkey's iron and steel exports totaled $655.75 million in value, increasing by 10.1 percent year on year but dropping 32.15 percent from October, while exports of articles of iron or steel decreased by 0.7 percent compared to November 2009 and 14.48 percent month on month at $403.48 million.
Meanwhile, in the first 11 months of 2010, the country's iron and steel exports stood at $7.71 billion, while its exports of articles of iron or steel amounted to $4.36 billion, increasing by 10.5 percent and six percent respectively, both compared to the corresponding period of 2009.