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Steel Imports Report: Italy
Background
Italy was the world’s third-largest steel importer in 2017. In 2018, Italy imported 20.9 million metric tons of steel, a 5 percent increase from 19.9 million metric tons in 2017. Italy’s imports in 2017 represented about 5 percent of all steel imported globally, based on available data. The volume of Italy’s steel imports in 2018 was about two-thirds that of the world’s largest importer, the United States. In value terms, steel represented just 3.8 percent of the total goods imported into the Italy in 2018.
The Italy imported steel from more than 75 countries and territories in 2018. The 10 countries highlighted in the map below represent the top sources for Italy’s imports of steel, with Italy receiving more than 750 thousand metric tons from each and together accounting for 69 percent of Italy’s steel imports in 2018.
Italy has generally run a trade deficit in steel for most of the past decade. Both imports and exports fell in 2009 but have since recovered increasing 68 percent and 42 percent, respectively, between 2009 and 2018. Italy posted a brief trade surplus between 2012 and 2014, which returned to a trade deficit in 2015. In 2018, the steel trade deficit stood at 3.5 million metric tons, a 43 percent increase from 2.4 million metric tons in 2017.
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