Italy's Steel exports rise 10.3% y-o-y in H1: Federacciai
Steel News | 2012-09-12 09:48:59
Italy's steel imports declined by 27.4% year-on-year to 7.415 million metric tons (mt) in the January-June period this year, as per the latest statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai.
By Paul Ploumis
ROME (Scrap Monster): Italy's steel imports declined by 27.4% year-on-year to 7.415 million metric tons (mt) in the January-June period this year, as per the latest statistics released by the Italian steel producers' association Federacciai.
Meanwhile, in the given period, the country's steel exports reached 9.915 million metric tons, advanced 10.3% year-on-year.
Italy's external steel trade balance is increasingly positive, reaching a surplus of 2.5 million mt for the given period.
(*) 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
