For the second year in a row Turkey has experienced a recession in exports of natural stone even falling to below the magical 2 billion-US-$-mark: in 2014, exports by value had reached 2.128 billion US-$ (equaling 7.371 million t), a mere 1.907 billion US-$ (or 6.5219 million t) could be chalked up in 2015.
Expressed in percentage this meant -10% negative growth by value and -12% by tonnage as compared to the 12-month period one year prior (2014: -4.2% by value, -12.6% by tonnage).
http://www.stone-ideas.com/2016/04/21/turkey-falling-back-to-the-2-billion-us-mark-after-the-second-weak-export-year-in-a-row/
