Italy's Flat Steel Imports From Non-EU Countries rose by 91% in January and February

In the first two months this year, Italy's steel exports to non-European Union (EU) countries totaled 656,000 metric tons, down by 21.4 percent, while its steel imports from non-EU sources totaled 1.265 million metric tons, up 46.4 percent, both compared year-on-year, as announced by the Italian steel producers association Federacciai.

In particular, Italy's flat steel product imports from non-EU sources rose by 91.2 percent in January-February, while flat product exports to non-EU destinations decreased by 42.3 percent and long product exports to these countries fell by almost five percent, all year on year.

The details are presented in the following table:

(*) 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