October 08, 2008

Indonesia imports 1.06 million tonnes of scrap in 2006

YIEH reported that Indonesia imported 1.063 million tonnes of scrap in 2006, decreasing by 11.6% YoY.

The report added that import for 222,000 tonnes is from Australia, accounting for 20.9% up by 25% YoY. Philippine provided around 187,000 tonnes, accounting for 17.6% up by 2.7 times than the same time of last year. And the import from America was 185,000 tonnes, accounting for 17.4%, down by 22.7% YoY.