Global sales from stainless steel exporting countries for flat-rolled products under 600 millimeters wide amounted to US$4.2 billion in 2015. That metric represents a -23.1% decrease from 2011 and a 14.3% drop from 2014 to 2015.
The 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix for flat-rolled stainless steel products under 600 millimeters wide is 7220.
Top Stainless Steel Exporters by Country
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of stainless steel during 2015:
- Germany: US$635.8 million (15.1% of total stainless steel exports)
- Japan: $399.8 million (9.5%)
- United States: $335 million (8%)
- Italy: $307.1 million (7.3%)
- China: $295.4 million (7%)
- France: $277 million (6.6%)
- Sweden: $254.1 million (6%)
- South Korea: $219.4 million (5.2%)
- Romania: $187.9 million (4.5%)
- Netherlands: $185.5 million (4.4%)
- Belgium: $175.4 million (4.2%)
- Taiwan: $159.2 million (3.8%)
- India: $139 million (3.3%)
- Hong Kong: $105.1 million (2.5%)
- Spain: $86.9 million (2.1%)
Stainless steel
Among the above top countries, only South Korea grew the value of its stainless steel exports from 2011 to 2015 via its 4.7% gain.
Leading the decliners in stainless steel exports were: Sweden (down -42.8%), Japan (down -35.9%), Hong Kong (down -35.6%) and Taiwan (down -34.6%).
The listed 15 countries shipped 89.5% of all stainless steel exports in 2015.
Source: worldstopexports.com