Posted on 30 Jan 2026
Driven by strong growth in semi-finished steel shipments, Iran’s total exports of semis and finished steel products surged 31.3% year-on-year in the first nine months of the Iranian calendar year, 21 March-21 December 2025, reaching 9.46 million tonnes, Kallanish notes.
According to data published on the Iranian Steel Producers Association’s (ISPA) Chilan portal, export growth was led by semis and a sharp rise in flat steel shipments, which more than offset weaker performance in finished longs.
Nine-month exports of billet and bloom increased 37.7% y-o-y to 4.58mt, while slab exports jumped 44.6% to 1.54mt.
In the finished steel segment, exports of flat products rose sharply to 1.03mt, compared with just 307,000 tonnes a year earlier. The increase was driven primarily by hot rolled coil shipments, which totalled 867,000t. Exports of coated steel, mainly hot-dipped galvanised products, rose 76.7% y-o-y to 76,000t, while cold rolled coil exports surged to 58,000t from 7,600t a year earlier.
By contrast, finished long product exports declined 8% y-o-y to 2.3mt. Rebar and wire rod shipments fell 9.9% to 1.92mt. Beam exports dropped 27.7% to 120,000t, but exports of angles, channels and other long products rose 27.7% to 263,000t.
In the metallics segment, Iran increased shipments mainly to the Far East and India over the period due to energy supply shortages preventing conversion into steel. Exports of direct reduced iron and hot-briquetted iron rose 25.6% y-o-y to 1.66mt. Iron ore pellet exports increased 33.4% to 10.1mt, while iron ore concentrate shipments climbed 78.8% to 9.15mt.
Source:Kallanish
