In the first nine months of this year, imports of HRC to Turkey amounted to 2.93 million tons, which is ten percent more, while the value of these imports fell by seven percent to $1.60 billion. both figures are annualized.
Import of hot-rolled coils to Turkey - for the last 12 months
During this period, China was the largest source of hot-rolled steel imports to Turkey, which supplied 1.13 million tons, which is 17.5% less than last year. China was followed by Russia with 711,428 tons, up 164.9 percent, and Egypt with 344,964 tons, down 17.6 percent from the same period last year.
Turkeyis one of the ten largest sources of imports of fried raw materials in the period from January to September:
