Turkey's steel billet imports up 29.11 percent in Jan-Sept

Friday, 15 November 2013 02:08:49 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

In September this year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume increased by 8.22 percent year on year to 301,245 metric tons, up 46.17 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $165.62 million, up 0.71 percent year on year and increasing by 49.57 percent compared to the previous month.

Meanwhile, in the January-September period of this year, Turkey imported 2,279,758 mt of billet and bloom, up 29.11 percent, with a value of $1.27 billion, increasing by 15 percent, both year on year.

In September this year, Turkey imported 141,182 mt of billet and bloom from Russia, 41.78 percent higher month on month and 100 percent higher compared to September 2012, occupying first place among Turkey's major billet and bloom import sources in the given month, ahead of Ukraine. Nevertheless, in the first nine months of the year Ukraine's billet and bloom exports to Turkey increased by 39.08 percent year on year to 1.19 million mt, with Ukraine being the top supplier of billet and bloom to Turkey in this period.

Turkey's main billet and bloom sources on country basis in the first nine months of this year are presented below:

 

Turkey's top 10 billet and bloom import sources in January-September 2013 are as follows:

CountryAmount (mt)   
 Jan-Sept. 2013Jan-Sept. 2012Sept. 2013Sept. 2012
Ukraine1.185.505852.409123.452117.264
Russia732.964545.911141.18270.582
Belarus106.36075.1904.58715.050
Georgia39.491

 -

8.057

 -

Albania36.39383.7856.92013.707
Serbia32.855

18.747

4.356

 -

Lithuania30.902

 -

 -

 -

Germany27.05323.5521.134625
Croatia22.339

 -

4.856

 -

USA13.02543792255

 

 


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