Japan's steel exports up in July on Chinese, Thai demand

摘要

Japan's iron and steel export volumes increased by 2.3% year on year in July to 3.03 million tonnes, according to statistics from the Japan Iron & Steel Federation (JISF) released late last week. Carbon finished steel exports made up 1.91 million tonnes of that total, up 1.1% from July last year. Specialty steel exports dropped 0.8% on the year to 671,043 tonnes while semi-finished products increased 16.6% to 357,501 tonnes.