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Italy’s steel exports to non-EU countries up 24.5 percent in Jan-Mar

Friday, 04 May 2012 14:06:19 (GMT+3)   |  
       

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
 


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