According to the data provided by the Turkish Institute of Statistics, in May this year, the export of reinforcement and Katanka from Turkey amounted to 749 thousand 927 tons, which is 1 percent more than the APPG-2012 and 3.3 percent above the indicator of last month.
However, income from this exports fell by 8.4 percent and 3 percent decreased compared to APPG-2012 compared to April 2013. The export of reinforcement in monetary terms in May 2013 amounted to $ 443 million.
Meanwhile, in the first five months since the beginning of this year, the export of reinforcement from Turkey decreased by 4 percent compared to APPG -2012 - to 3 million 500 thousand tons, and the total income decreased by another 11.7 percent and amounted to $ 2 billion.
top 10 countries of Turkish reinforcement importers in 2013