In December last year, Turkey's rebar exports amounted to 486,422 metric tons, up 14.5 percent compared to November and decreasing by 3.3 percent year on year, according to the preliminary data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). Meanwhile, the revenue generated by these exports totaled $205.5 million, increasing by 17 percent compared to November and down 17.8 percent year on year.
Meanwhile, last year, Turkey's rebar exports amounted to 5.69 million metric tons, down 4.4 percent year on year, while the revenue generated by these exports totaled $2.6 billion, falling by 18.9 percent compared to same period of 2018.
In the given period, Turkey's largest rebar export destination was Yemen which received 1 million metric tons, up 28.6 percent year on year. Yemen was followed by Israel with 906,482 metric tons and Singapore with 586,087 metric tons.
Turkey's top 10 rebar export destinations in 2019:
|
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
January-December 2019 |
January- December 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
December 2019 |
December 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
|
Yemen |
1,002,971 |
779,935 |
28.60 |
155,636 |
14,683 |
- |
|
Israel |
906,482 |
747,812 |
21.22 |
105,824 |
72,851 |
45.26 |
|
Singapore |
586,087 |
393,197 |
49.06 |
1,190 |
40,773 |
-97.08 |
|
Ethiopia |
309,170 |
228,624 |
35.23 |
35,318 |
17,735 |
99.14 |
|
Hong Kong |
214,700 |
358,828 |
-40.17 |
- |
92,472 |
- |
|
Romania |
176,475 |
118,352 |
49.11 |
27,094 |
9,509 |
184.93 |
|
Djibouti |
154,355 |
207,236 |
-25.52 |
- |
20,371 |
- |
|
Panama |
132,437 |
144,672 |
-8.46 |
- |
16,645 |
- |
|
Jamaica |
126,712 |
121,958 |
3.90 |
8,052 |
10,844 |
-25.75 |
|
Lebanon |
121,940 |
84,108 |
44.98 |
- |
7,176 |
- |
Turkey's main rebar export destinations on country basis in 2019 are presented below:
