On the other hand, in the first five months of the current year Turkey's rebar exports stood at 3.61 million metric tons, up 21.3 percent year on year, while the total revenue of these exports amounted to $2.3 billion, increasing by 22.5 percent as compared to January-May 2011.
In the January-May period this year, Turkey's rebar exports to the US, one of the largest rebar export destinations of Turkey, increased 57.6 percent, while rebar exports to the UAE decreased by 40 percent, both compared to the same period last year.
Turkey's top 10 rebar export destinations in May 2012:
Country |
Volume (mt) |
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May 2012 |
May 2011 |
Jan-May 2012 |
Jan-May 2011 |
|
Iraq |
106,953 |
59,407 |
475,336 |
313,217 |
Saudi Arabia |
105,527 |
27,835 |
255,747 |
109,114 |
Egypt |
75,827 |
9,002 |
224,521 |
78,711 |
UAE |
75,441 |
93,052 |
412,296 |
687,685 |
Israel |
54,696 |
44,607 |
204,785 |
130,500 |
Canada |
51,516 |
30,028 |
104,449 |
94,647 |
Yemen |
45,923 |
- |
213,223 |
107,302 |
29,398 |
36,840 |
269,694 |
171,128 |
|
Ethiopia |
24,559 |
12,585 |
154,685 |
56,640 |
Turkmenistan |
24,187 |
9,760 |
60,429 |
39,513 |