November 20, 2008

Taiwan exports of rebar and H beam drop in June

According to Taiwanese customs, exports of rebar totaled 18,000 tonnes in June 2008 dropped by 31% MoM.

Exports of H beam were 53,000 tonnes, decreased slightly by 3%; exports of angle bar dropped sharply by 63% to 2,200 tonnes from previous month.

At the same time, Taiwan imported 485 tonnes of H beam, only accounts for 15% of that in May. And most of them were imported from Japan.

It is remarkable that the imports of angle bar soared up to 4,757 tonnes in June, increased by 154% from last month.