KYIV, Sept 18 – Ukrainian enterprises in January-August 2019 cut consumption of rolled steel by 9.9% year-over-year, to 2.830 million tons.

The Ukrmetallurgprom association said that over the period 953,400 tons was imported, or 33.7% of the domestic rolled steel market.

According to the report, the import structure for the period is characterized by a noticeable dominance of flat rolled products over long rolled products (55.44% and 40.94%, respectively); in the same period of 2018, the shares of long and flat products were nearly similar (respectively, 48.62% and 48.36%).