Turkey’s scrap imports up 11 percent in January-May

Thursday, 06 July 2017 15:29:20 (GMT+3)   |   Istanbul
       

In May this year, Turkey's scrap import volume increased by 23.6 percent year on year to 2.1 million metric tons and was up 26 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $590.4 million, up 51.9 percent year on year and up 30.5 percent compared to April.

In the first five months of the current year, Turkey's scrap import volume amounted to 8 million mt, rising by 11 percent, while the value of these imports increased by 65.3 percent to $2.18 billion, both year on year.

In the given period, Turkey imported 1,358,556 mt of scrap from the US, up 1.70 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the UK which supplied 1,163,352 mt in the given period, up 23.98 percent year on year.
 
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in the first five months of this year are as follows:

 

Country

Amount (mt)

 

 

 

 

 

 

January-May 2017

January-May 2016

Y-o-y change (%)

May 2017

May 2016

Y-o-y change (%)

USA

1.358.556

1.335.846

1,70

379.199

202.448

87,31

Netherlands

1.163.352

938.349

23,98

323.324

175.522

84,21

UK

1.117.654

1.137.409

-1,74

261.075

230.700

13,17

Belgium

978.651

771.469

26,86

208.411

201.116

3,63

Russia

653.677

1.208.295

-45,90

168.702

393.630

-57,14

France

339.203

230.356

47,25

80.365

81.553

-1,46

Lithuania

304.462

231.610

31,45

56.685

32.191

76,09

Germany

301.793

70.310

-

104.870

19.506

437,63

Denmark

274.250

181.605

51,01

41.351

59.695

-30,73

Libya

242.141

11.773

1956,75

63.694

-

-

 

Turkey's main scrap sources on country basis in the January-May period of this year are presented below:


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