300,000 tonnes of steel billet exported in 2017

by VTV411 January 2018 Last updated at 09:24 AM

VTV.vn - Vietnam no longer has to import steel billets as material for the steel industry.

Instead, the country exported 300 thousand tonnes of steel billet last year, according to the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA). VSA also revealed that Vietnamese steel billets are mainly exported to the Philippines and Indonesia with the average price of 480 to 500 USD per tonne. In addition, Vietnam also exported more than 1 million tonnes of construction steel in 2017, a rise of 62% compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, total steel consumption in the domestic market increased more than 20%, reaching nearly 18 million tonnes.

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