According to the South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI), in 2021 Indonesia exported around 3 million mt of semi-finished steel products to China. The products included 97,000 mt of stainless steel sheets, 1.2 million mt of semi-stainless steel products, 422,400 mt of carbon steel sheets and 1.3 million mt of carbon steel billet.
The country’s exports of semi-finished steel to China accounted for 22 percent of the latter’s total imports of semi-finished steel in the given year, with Indonesia becoming the largest supplier to China.