Russia has much overtook Ukraine in the supply of leaf steel to Turkey

According to the data provided by the Turkish Institute of Statistics, in May 2013, the import of flat rolling, including the supply of hot-rolled, cold-rolled rolls and galvanizing, decreased by 9.5 percent compared to APPG-2012 and decreased by 20.5 percent compared to April 2013 to 457 thousand tons.

In monetary terms, export exports import steel imports to Turkey for a month amounted to $ 317 million, decreasing by 16.1 percent in an annual comparison and 16.1 percent compared to the previous month.

In the first five months of this year, the import of flat rental in Turkey amounted to 2 million 560 thousand tons, which is 29.1 percent more than in the APPG-2012. At the same time, the main importer was the Russian Federation by the time -increasing sales of leaf steel to Turkey and overtook the previous leader of the supply - Ukraine.

The main landmarks of flat rental to Turkey in the first five months since the beginning of 2013

60.636
168,750

	January-May, 2013	January-May, 2012
Russia	599,603	292,415
464.563	471,439
France	371,241	105,628
Romania	213.961	308,879
Slovakia	159,021	37,236
Belgium	129,129	125.523
Japan	118,233	36,545
Netherlands	92.782	96,484
Germany	70.581
Italy	69,659