According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), the country's imports of billet and bloom totaled 206,090 tons in August, slumping by 22.4% month on month but rising by 6.82% year on year.
In August, the country's import values generated by billet and bloom totaled US$110.73 million, falling by 2% year on year and decreasing by 23.8% from a month ago.
In the first eight months of this year, the country's imports of billet and bloom amounted to 1,978,512 tons, soaring by 33% year on year. The import revenues rose by 11.1% year on year to US$1.1 billion.