2015 January-July the Turkish steel exports fell 10.2%
Turkish Steel Producers Association (TCUD) data show that in the first seven months, the Turkish steel exports 9.73 million tons, down 10.2%. Wherein the steel 4.27 million tons, down 6.4%, hot rolled 959,000 tons, down 3.7%, billet 208 thousand tons, 52.1 percent fell sharply.
For export only 1.34 million tons in July, down 3.7 percent year on year, with exports falling 20.9 percent to $ 927 million. Among them, the billet exported only 3,000 tons, sharply down 94.4%, hot rolled coil exports fell more obvious, export 159,000 tons, down 39.4 percent.
Middle East is still the main export market of Turkey 1 - July exports of 3.6 million tons of steel in the Middle East, followed by exports to the EU 1.6 million tons, 1.1 million tons of North African exports.
Turkey said that the decline in exports on the one hand is the sluggish demand in these areas, the second is the face of competition from China on these export markets.