Latin American imports of Chinese steel rises for Q1

The Latin American Steel Association recently released data showed that 2017-year Latin American c-ountries imported steel from China totaled 1.9 million tons in the first quarter of 2017, increased by 8% compared with the same period of last year.
In the first quarter of this year, the Latin American countries imported 1.2 million tons of steel products -from China, accounted for 63% of the total imports of steel from China; the Latin American countries i-mported 420,000 tons of long products from China, accounted for 22% of the total steel imports from -China; the imported 62,000 tons of seamless steel tube from China, accounted for 3% of the total impo-rts from China.