In the January-May period of this year, Ukraine exported 688,454 mt of pig iron, down 40 percent compared to the corresponding period in 2014, worth a total of $190.670 million, down 54.7 percent year on year, according to the data released by State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
In terms of value, the exports mostly went to Italy (31.57 percent), Turkey (18.21 percent) and the US (16.10 percent).
In the January-May period of this year, Ukraine imported 2,683 mt of pig iron, down 22.5 percent year on year, worth a total of $903,000, down 38.9 percent year on year. The main supplier of pig iron imports in the given period was Russia, which supplied 94.91 percent of the total imports in terms of value.