Trade Resources Industry Views Turkey Imported 2,279,758 Mt of Billet and Bloom, up 29.11 Percent in Jan-Sept

Turkey Imported 2,279,758 Mt of Billet and Bloom, up 29.11 Percent in Jan-Sept

In September this year, Turkey's billet and bloom import volume increased by 8.22 percent year on year to 301,245 metric tons, up 46.17 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $165.62 million, up 0.71 percent year on year and increasing by 49.57 percent compared to the previous month.

Turkey's Steel Billet Imports up 29.11 Percent in Jan-Sept

Meanwhile, in the January-September period of this year, Turkey imported 2,279,758 mt of billet and bloom, up 29.11 percent, with a value of $1.27 billion, increasing by 15 percent, both year on year.

In September this year, Turkey imported 141,182 mt of billet and bloom from Russia, 41.78 percent higher month on month and 100 percent higher compared to September 2012, occupying first place among Turkey's major billet and bloom import sources in the given month, ahead of Ukraine. Nevertheless, in the first nine months of the year Ukraine's billet and bloom exports to Turkey increased by 39.08 percent year on year to 1.19 million mt, with Ukraine being the top supplier of billet and bloom to Turkey in this period.

Turkey's main billet and bloom sources on country basis in the first nine months of this year are presented below:

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Turkey's top 10 billet and bloom import sources in January-September 2013 are as follows:

 

Country Amount (mt)      
  Jan-Sept. 2013 Jan-Sept. 2012 Sept. 2013 Sept. 2012
Ukraine 1.185.505 852.409 123.452 117.264
Russia 732.964 545.911 141.182 70.582
Belarus 106.360 75.190 4.587 15.050
Georgia 39.491

 -

8.057

 -

Albania 36.393 83.785 6.920 13.707
Serbia 32.855

18.747

4.356

 -

Lithuania 30.902

 -

 -

 -

Germany 27.053 23.552 1.134 625
Croatia 22.339

 -

4.856

 -

USA 13.025 437 922 55

 

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