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Italy’s steel exports up 8.9 percent in January-July

Monday, 01 October 2012 17:24:31 (GMT+3)   |  
       

According to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the January-July period this year Italy's steel imports totaled 8.691 million metric tons, decreasing by 25.8 percent, while its steel exports totaled 11.468 million metric tons, up 8.9 percent, both compared to the same period of the previous year. Accordingly, Italy recorded a surplus of 2.777 million mt in its external steel trade for the first seven months of the current year.

 

Products

Imports

Exports

Balance

Jan-Jul 2011

Jan-Jul 2012

Change (%)

Jan-Jul 2011

Jan-Jul 2012

Change (%)

Jan-Jul 2011

Jan-Jul 2012

Ingots and semi-finished products

2,364

1,911

-19.2

519

527

1.5

-1,845

-1,384

Long products

1,570

1,121

-28.6

2,089

2,464

18

519

1,343

Flat products

6,815

4,796

-29.6

4,624

5,178

12

-2,191

382

1st manufacturing products (*)

821

734

-10.6

3,068

3,055

-0.4

2,247

2,321

2nd manufacturing products (**)

136

129

-5.1

229

224

6.6

93

115

Total

11,706

8,691

-25.8

10,529

11,468

8.9

-1,177

2,777

(*) 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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