Turkey produced 22.55 million tonnes of crude steel in January-August 2019, down by 10.46% from 25.19 million tonnes in the corresponding eight-month period of last year, the Turkish Steel Producers Association (T???oeD) said last week.
The drop in output was largely attributed to subdued end-user demand and weakening export markets for Turkish steel.The European Commission (EC) imposed definitive safeguard duties on imports of a range of steel products on February 1. The Commission then started a review of these measures in May.The current measures increase the level of tariff-free quotas for each product category by 5% each year from August...