Turkey imported 549,549 tonnes of flat steel in November 2019, up by 53.15% from the corresponding month in 2018, when 358,826 tonnes arrived in the country, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) said last week.
The reason for the sharp year-on-year increase in imports was that Turkish flat steel imports had fallen considerably in November 2018, partly as a result of a political dispute with the United States that spilled over into the commercial markets.Turkey's domestic market has been slow since September 2018, when trade relations with the US...