In March this year, Turkey's scrap import volume decreased by 9.4 percent year on year and went up by 7.4 percent month on month to 1.66 million metric tons, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $622 million, down 24.4 percent year on year and up 7.3 percent month on month.
In the January-March period, Turkey's scrap imports amounted to 4.69 million mt, down 11.7 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 23.5 percent to $1.75 billion, both year on year.
Turkey’s scrap imports - January-March 2025
In the given period, Turkey imported 842,805 mt of scrap from the Netherlands, up 4.9 percent year on year, with the Netherlands ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the US which supplied 776,294 mt in the given period, down 23.1 year on year, and the UK which supplied 457,603 mt of scrap, down 20.7 percent year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in the January-March period are as follows:
| Country | Amount (mt) | |||||
| January-March 2025 | January-March 2024 | Y-o-y change (%) | March 2025 | March 2024 | Y-o-y change (%) | |
| Netherlands | 842,805 | 803,758 | 4.9 | 233,859 | 220,471 | 6.1 |
| US | 776,294 | 1,009,145 | -23.1 | 412,239 | 471,944 | 14.5 |
| UK | 457,603 | 576,759 | -20.7 | 145,784 | 278,772 | -47.7 |
| Belgium | 410,419 | 441,316 | -7.0 | 78,604 | 29,962 | 162.3 |
| Denmark | 281,289 | 286,033 | -1.7 | 105,908 | 143,643 | -26.3 |
| Romania | 214,515 | 233,849 | -8.3 | 101,375 | 56,291 | 80.1 |
| Lithuania | 207,646 | 288,968 | -28.1 | 88,333 | 45,897 | 92.5 |
| Russia | 181,831 | 84,632 | 114.8 | 70,861 | 32,563 | 117.6 |
| Poland | 150,922 | 141,318 | 6.8 | 25,123 | 87,825 | -71.4 |
| France | 142,358 | 159,926 | -11.0 | 52,594 | 20,165 | 160.8 |
Shares in Turkey’s scrap imports - January-March 2025
