Belgium was the world’s sixth-largest steel importer in 2017. The volume of Belgium’s 2018 steel imports were slightly more than half that of the
European Union’s largest importer, Germany, and slightly more than half that of the United States, the world’s largest importer. In value terms, steel contributed just 2.6 percent of the total goods imported into Belgium in 2018. Belgium imported steel from more than 80 countries and territories in
2018.