On February 22 the Eurasian Economic Commission considered a number of integration, trade, as well as customs and technical regulation issues. One of the decisions was the zeroing of the customs duties on some of grafitized electrodes. At present the duty is 5%. The 0% duty is applied till April 30, 2020. (Ukrainian metal)
In January Ukraine exported $48.728 million worth of steel pipes, down by 9.1% YoY. Imports grew by 54.1%, to $19.118 million. According to the State Fiscal Service, in January exports dropped by 13.6% MoM, while imports – by 2.3%, to $0.454 million. USA imported the most pipes – $11.852 million. (Ukrainian metal)
The prices of precious metals increased in Azerbaijan on February 25. The price of gold grew by 10.7355 manats, to 2,262.5895 manats per ounce compared to the price on February 22. The price of silver went up by 0.2537 manats, to 27.1554 manats per ounce. The price of platinum increased by 39.423 manats, to 1,444.0820…
In 2018 metal products accounted for 24.6% of the total volume of exports. According to the Ministry of economical development and trade, metal exports grew by 14.9% YoY, to $11.6 billion. Metal industry provided for the second largest contribution to exports after agriculture. The share of agriculture products in the exports was 39.3%, or $18.6…
In 2018 Zaporozhkoks, under a program to increase energy efficiency, decreased consumption of the main resources – gas, steam and electricity – at the same time retaining output volumes. This allowed the enterprise saving some 41 million UAH. At the same time the blast furnace coke output volumes remained unchanged – 825 thousand tons. (Ukrainian…
In January the Far Eastern Railroad transported 1.5 million tons of coal, down by 12% YoY. Last year coal transportation dropped by 5.5%, to 17.8 million tons. At the same time iron ore concentrate transportation grew by 88.9%, to 60 thousand tons. In the whole 2018, 664 thousand tons of concentrate were transported, up by…
OMZ-Spetsstal has concluded an agreement to supply pipe billets to the Pipe Metal Company. The billets will be used to produce corrosion-resistant casing pipes for Gazprom. The companies have been cooperating since 2016. In 2018 OMZ-Spetsstal received a certificate enabling it to supply metal to TMK. Last autumn the company shipped some 800 tons of…
In 2018 Belarus increased the exports of anthracite coal to Ukraine 340-fold, and ordinary coal – 980-fold. Belarus has no coal deposits of its own. Coal re-exports last year totaled 853.9 thousand tons valued at $74.9 million. Ukraine accounted for 588.5 thousand tons (0.6 thousand tons in 2017) at $50.3 million ($63 million), and EU…