According to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the first three months of the current year Italy's steel imports from non-EU countries reached 1.339 million metric tons, decreasing by 49 percent, while its steel exports to non-EU destinations totaled 1.448 million metric tons, up 24.5 percent, both compared to the same period of the previous year.
Products | Imports | Exports | Balance | |||||
Jan-Mar 2011 | Jan-Mar 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Mar 2011 | Jan-Mar 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Mar 2011 | Jan-Mar 2012 | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 856 | 610 | -28.7 | 43 | 57 | +32.6 | -813 | -553 |
Long products | 183 | 121 | -33.9 | 315 | 484 | +53.7 | 132 | 363 |
Flat products | 1,466 | 509 | -65.3 | 410 | 520 | +26.8 | -1,056 | 11 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 97 | 81 | -16.5 | 351 | 333 | -5,1 | 254 | 252 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 21 | 18 | -14.3 | 44 | 54 | +22.7 | 23 | 36 |
Total | 2,623 | 1,339 | -49 | 1,163 | 1,448 | +24.5 | -1,460 | 109 |
(*) 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
Units of measurement are thousand metric tons