In the January-April period this year, Italy's steel imports from non-European Union (EU) countries totaled 3.787 million metric tons, up by 11.8 percent, while its steel exports to non-EU destinations amounted 1.161 million metric tons, down 14.7 percent, both year on year, as announced by the Italian steel producers association Federacciai.
The details are presented in the following table, with units of measurement in thousand metric tons:
Products | Imports non-EU | Exports non-EU | Balance | |||||
Jan-April | Jan-April | Y-oY change (%) | Jan-April | Jan-April | Y-oY change (%) | Jan-April | Jan-April | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 1,060 | 1,176 | +10.9 | 41 | 47 | +14.6 | -1,019 | -1129 |
Long products | 193 | 219 | +13.5 | 736 | 642 | -12.8 | 543 | 423 |
Flat products | 1,939 | 2,219 | +14.4 | 637 | 492 | -22.8 | -1,302 | -1,727 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 169 | 149 | -11.8 | 392 | 354 | -9.7 | 223 | 205 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 25 | 24 | -4 | 82 | 75 | -8.5 | 57 | 51 |
Total | 3,386 | 3,787 | +11.8 | 1,888 | 1,610 | -14.7 | -1,498 | -2,177 |
(*) Seamless pipes, welded pipes, forged bars, cold drawn sections and bars, drawn wire, cold rolled strips, welded sections, drawn wire.
(**) Flanges, pipe fittings, mining sections, diamond plates, pig iron powder.