Trade statistics released by the European Union shows that Netherlands iron ore imports significantly drop by 7.2% in H1 2016 as compared to H1 2015.
In H1 2016, the country imported around 15.3 MnT iron ore as compared to 16.5MnT in H1 2015.
In Jun’16, the country imported 2.41 MnT iron ore as compared to 3.00 MnT in Jun’15. Imports drop down significantly by 19.6% Y-o-Y. However, on M-o-M basis, iron ore imports marginally drop by 1.2% when compared with May’16.
The non-agglomerated iron ore (lumps and fines) imports in H1 2016 was registered at 11.9 MnT, decreased by 14.6% over the previous year. In H1 2015, the country imported 13.04 MnT iron ore. The agglomerated iron ore (pellets and concentrates) imports in H1 2016 was registered at 3.4 MnT in H1 2016 as well as H1 2015.
The largest exporter of iron ore to Netherlands during H1 2016 was Brazil with 9.86 MnT iron ore. The other key countries who exported iron ore to Netherlands were Canada (1.24 MnT), Norway (0.51 MnT), South Africa (1.21 MnT), Sweden (1.04 MnT) etc.
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