Brief Analysis on International Market of Seamless Tube

The general seamless steel pipe import volume is very large. The main import countries are Germany and Japan. European countries such as Romania, Russia, Switzerland, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Hungary and other countries have imports. There are also small amounts of imports from countries such as Argentina and Mexico in South America.

According to the different requirements of Chinese cargo units, there are more than 100 kinds of imported seamless steel pipe specifications. Length generally range from 5 to 8 m or 4 to 7 m. Mainly hot-rolled carbon structure, the steel number is ST35.ST45 and ST65. The smallest inlet size diameter is 305mm and the largest is 47813mm.

A small number of seamless steel pipe with smaller diameter and thin walls were once imported from France and Spain, such as 183mm,223mm, 26.93mm et al. Implement the general rules of Germany.

Seamless steel pipe imported from Hungary and Japan often refer to DIN2448 and DIN1629.

In the case of import claim, the quality of imported seamless steel pipe mainly includes: chemical composition divergence, flattening test splitting, low tensile strength, serious corrosion and pit, etc.

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In recent years, there are many reasons for the continuous rise of seamless steel pipe exports, the main reason is the impact of seamless steel pipe production and the orders to China; since 2020, the international oil and gas related investment increased significantly, the international demand for seamless steel pipe, which promoted the depreciation of RMB and the domestic seamless steel pipe export price in 2023, which greatly stimulated the export of seamless pipe.

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It is expected that on the basis of the seamless steel pipe export has reached a record high in 2024, the seamless steel pipe export may show a certain decline in 2025, but the absolute value of seamless steel pipe export volume will remain high. It is expected that China's seamless pipe export may fall to about 5 million tons in 2025.