According to data published by the Ukrainian Metallurgical Association Ukrmetallurgprom, for the period from January to September of this year, the total steel production in Ukraine amounted to 3.73 million tons, compared with 4.84 million tons for the same period in 2025. About 2.28 million tons, or 61.1% of total steel production, were exported, while 1.45 million tons, or 38.9%, were consumed in the domestic market. During the period from January to September 2025, 2.92 million tons or 60.3% of total steel production were shipped abroad, while sales in the domestic market amounted to 1.93 million tons or 39.7% of total steel production. As a result, total steel exports decreased by 22.0 percent, while total domestic steel sales decreased by 24.6 percent year-on-year.
During the specified period, exports of flat rolled products decreased by 23.5 percent and amounted to approximately 988,000 tons, while semi-finished products-exports of finished steel products amounted to approximately 955,000 tons, an increase of 0.4 percent year-on-year. In the period from January to September, exports of rolled products amounted to about 334,000 tons, which is 50.6% less than in the same period last year.
The share of semi-finished products in exports in the first nine months was 41.94%, which is significantly more than in the same period last year. This is higher than the 32.59 percent recorded in the same period of 2025, while the share of flat steel products in exports was 43.39%, down slightly from the 44.24% recorded in the same period last year. In addition, the share of long products decreased to 14.67 percent from 23.17 percent recorded in January-September last year. 2025.
Meanwhile, over the same period, domestic steel consumption decreased by 13.8% year-on-year to 2.73 million tons, of which 1.28 million tons, or 46.78 percent, accounted for imports. However, in the period from January to September 2025, domestic steel consumption amounted to 3.16 million tons, of which 1.24 million tons, or 39.17%, was provided by imports.
For the period from January to September, the total volume of steel imports to Ukraine amounted to 1.28 million tons, an increase of 2.9 percent year-on-year. In particular, Ukraine imported about 889,000 tons of flat rolled products, an increase of 6.8% year-on-year, while its long-range imports increased by 20.1% year-on-year to approximately 317,000 tons. Imports of semi-finished steel products into the country in the first nine months amounted to about 70,000 tons, compared with about 144,000 tons registered in the same period last year. 2025.
At the same time, the share of rolled steel in imports for the same period was 69.65 percent, compared with 67.14 percent recorded in January-September last year. In 2025, while the share of long products increased to 24.83 percent from 21.28 percent recorded in the same period last year.
The main export markets for Ukraine in the period from January to September 2026 were the EU-27 (82.2%), other European countries (9.2%) and the CIS (6.7%), while the main suppliers of imports to Ukraine were other European countries (48.8%), Asia (26.6%) and the EU-27 (17.0%).
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