According to the data from China Customs data, China’s seamless pipe export volumes increased by 8% from previous month to 247,542 tons. However, the increasing rate is not enough for the rate of increased production.
The amount is about 10% than the shipments from the same period in 2012.
China’s total seamless pipe exports for the first eleven months were 4.7 million tons in 2013, slightly down by 1% year on year.
Total production also rose 10% year on year to 28.63 million tons, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
The major destinations for China’s seamless exports were India, South Korea, UAE, Indonesia, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
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