In April this year, Turkey's rebar exports amounted to 429,660 metric tons, down 20.5 percent compared to March and decreasing by 4.3 percent year on year, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). Meanwhile, the revenue generated by these exports totaled $245.55 million, decreasing by 24.9 percent compared to April 2017 and down 18.9 percent month on month.
In the first four months of the current year, Turkey's rebar exports amounted to 1.97 million mt, down 13.2 percent, while the value of these exports decreased by 13.7 percent to $1.09 billion, both year on year.
In the given period, Turkey's largest rebar export destination was Yemen which received 299,132 metric tons, up 4.12 percent year on year. Yemen was followed by Israel with 237,142 metric tons and the US with 201,667 metric tons.
Turkey's top 10 rebar export destinations in the January-April period:
|
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jan-Apr 2018 |
Jan- Apr 2017 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
April 2018 |
April 2017 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
|
Yemen |
299,132 |
287,282 |
4.12 |
51,659 |
41,547 |
24.34 |
|
Israel |
237,142 |
224,417 |
5.67 |
73,232 |
60,296 |
21.45 |
|
US |
201,667 |
459,386 |
-56.10 |
13,530 |
140,516 |
-90.37 |
|
Canada |
123,612 |
29,041 |
325.65 |
- |
- |
- |
|
Netherlands |
86,194 |
15,478 |
456.88 |
10,500 |
999 |
- |
|
Germany |
80,760 |
5,755 |
- |
39,612 |
- |
- |
|
Malaysia |
80,365 |
75,372 |
6.62 |
19,280 |
3,432 |
461.77 |
|
Panama |
73,070 |
42,276 |
72.84 |
10,139 |
4,725 |
114.58 |
|
UK |
60,954 |
47,568 |
28.14 |
21,653 |
10,426 |
107.68 |
|
Ethiopia |
60,939 |
75,457 |
-19.24 |
26,843 |
700 |
- |
Turkey's main rebar export destinations on country basis in the January-April period are presented below:
