As of November 30th 2012, importers of steel pipes to Ukraine used 84.52% of their annual quota up to the end of September 2013 for imports of steel seamless casing and tubing with diameters up to 406.4 mm.

For the period from October 1st 2012 to September 30th 2013, the quota in question is 17,591 tonnes. Of this figure, the unused quota volume is 2,722 tonnes. In particular, Russia used 99.91% of its quota for exports of the mentioned products to Ukraine, Austria used 32.97% of its quota, Poland used 66.34% of its quota, Romania used 86.82% of its quota, China used 95.68% of its quota while other countries used 62.68% of their quotas.