Russia: metal imports down in Q1 2019

In January-March, Russia’s imports totaled $53.8 billion, down by 2.4% YoY. The share of metal and metal wares was 7%, down from 7.2%. The share of far foreign countries was 5.9% (5.7%) and of CIS – 16.3% (18.6%). The volume of ferrous metals imports dropped by 18.5%, including flat rolled metal of iron and unalloyed…

Ukraine: energy minister on debts to miners

Gosuglepostach and Centerenergo have to clear salary debts to miners of the Lviv-Volyn basin. “My task now is to make these enterprises start paying you”, the energy and coal industry minister Igor Nasalik said at the miners strike. According to him, the main problem is that there appeared private organizations in the coal sale scheme…