According to the statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai, in the first two months of the current year Italy's steel imports amounted to 860,000 mt, decreasing by 49.1 percent, while its steel exports totaled 865,000 mt, up 19.6 percent, both compared to the same period of the previous year.
Products | Imports | Exports | Balance | |||||
Jan-Feb 2011 | Jan-Feb 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Feb 2011 | Jan-Feb 2012 | Change (%) | Jan-Feb 2011 | Jan-Feb 2012 | |
Ingots and semi-finished products | 573 | 400 | -30.2 | 27 | 38 | 40.7 | -546 | -392 |
Long products | 123 | 83 | -32.5 | 176 | 252 | 43.2 | 53 | 169 |
Flat products | 925 | 315 | -65.9 | 259 | 326 | 25.9 | -666 | 11 |
1st manufacturing products (*) | 55 | 49 | -10.9 | 235 | 217 | -7.7 | 180 | 168 |
2nd manufacturing products (**) | 14 | 13 | -7.1 | 26 | 32 | 23.1 | 12 | 19 |
Total | 1,690 | 860 | -49.1 | 723 | 865 | 19.6 | -967 | 5 |
(*) 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