Ukraine steel consumption in 10 months down by 38% YoY

According to the data issued by metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in January to October this year Ukraine consumed about 4.72 million tons of rolled steel products down by 37.8% YoY.
In January to October 2009 Ukraine consumption of primary rolled steel products, excluding pipes was as follows:

Product	January-October 2008, t	January-October 2009,t	Change, %
Rebar	957,209	437,530	-54.3
Beam	94,532	33,444	-64.6
Wire rod	553,316	402,601	-27.2
HRC	2,567,338	1,577,010	-38.6
CRC	477,480	231,478	-51.5
Angle	282,456	130,270	-53.9
Channel	226,201	118,927	-47.4
Others	2,429,156	1,787,603	-26.4
Market capacity	7,587,687	4,718,864	-37.8

During the period in question, the share of imports in the domestic rolled steel product market decreased to 11.9% YoY from 20.4% YoY amounting to 591,000 tons. (SteelOrbis)