Turkey"s section steel prices continued to drop to US$480-490/ton from last week"s US$490-510/ton.
At the same time, according to the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers Association, in 2008 Turkey"s flat output totaled 4.541 tons, up by 60.7 percent compared with last year.
In addition, Turkey"s crude steel consumption in 2008 hit 4.154 million tons. Source: Yieh.com