According to the data issued by metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in January-November this year Ukraine consumed about 5.351 million mt of rolled steel products, down 32.5 percent year on year.
During the period in question, the share of imports in the domestic rolled steel product market decreased to 11.5 percent, from 20.1 percent in the same period last year, amounting to 649,200 mt.
On the other hand, in November this year rolled steel product deliveries to the Ukrainian domestic market amounted to 576,400 mt, up 67 percent year on year but down 5.1 percent month on month.
In January-November 2009 Ukraine's consumption of primary rolled steel products, excluding pipes, was as follows:
Product |
Jan-Nov 2008 (mt) |
Jan-Nov 2009 (mt) |
Change (mt) |
Change (%) |
1,015,840 |
479,372 |
-536,468 |
-52.8 |
|
Beam |
96,330 |
35,801 |
-60,529 |
-62.8 |
579,680 |
437,845 |
-141,835 |
-24.5 |
|
2,682,047 |
1,748,031 |
-934,016 |
-34.8 |
|
499,601 |
294,578 |
-205,023 |
-41.0 |
|
Angle |
291,108 |
146,771 |
-144,335 |
-49.6 |
Channel |
235,150 |
129,526 |
-105,623 |
-44.9 |
Others |
2,533,188 |
2,079,455 |
-453,732 |
-17.9 |
Market capacity |
7,932,944 |
5,351,380 |
-2,581,564 |
-32.5 |
Just as in the corresponding period of the previous year, in January-November this year the biggest share in Ukrainian domestic rolled steel product consumption was held by hot rolled coil, with just under a third of the total volume of deliveries at 32.67 percent, followed by rebar and wire rod, with 8.96 percent and 8.18 percent respectively.
In January-November this year, Ukraine's main consumer of rolled steel remained the pipe sector, which increased its share of overall consumption in the domestic steel market from 25.3 percent to 26 percent, while the local metal trade sector, which occupied first place in the first eleven months of 2008, saw its share decrease from 33.8 percent to 25 percent.