In December last year, Turkey's scrap import volume decreased by 19.5 percent year on year to 1.63 million metric tons and was up 7.7 percent compared to November, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $547.11 million, down 15.3 percent year on year and rising by 10.7 percent month on month.
In 2018, Turkey's scrap imports amounted to 20.66 million mt, down 1.5 percent, while the value of these imports increased by 16.3 percent to $7.14 billion, both year on year.
In the given period, Turkey imported 3,704,581 mt of scrap from the US, down 2.45 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the UK which supplied 2,648,433 mt in the given period, down 16.72 percent year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in 2018 period are as follows:
|
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2018 |
2017 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
December 2018 |
December 2017 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
|
USA |
3,704,581 |
3,797,671 |
-2.45 |
290,050 |
490,147 |
-40.82 |
|
UK |
2,648,433 |
3,180,271 |
-16.72 |
129,795 |
416,230 |
-68.82 |
|
Russia |
2,518,099 |
2,353,896 |
6.98 |
218,219 |
192,582 |
13.31 |
|
Netherlands |
2,318,151 |
3,731,340 |
-37.87 |
133,330 |
255,373 |
-47.79 |
|
Belgium |
1,911,161 |
2,002,171 |
-4.55 |
157,352 |
64,535 |
143.82 |
|
Canada |
826,006 |
526,312 |
56.94 |
- |
83,308 |
|
|
Lithuania |
820,660 |
918,533 |
-10.66 |
86,403 |
38,398 |
125.02 |
|
Denmark |
807,338 |
641,109 |
25.93 |
73,363 |
27,054 |
171.17 |
|
France |
733,529 |
743,230 |
-1.31 |
57,557 |
103,160 |
-44.21 |
|
Romania |
676,583 |
647,300 |
4.52 |
83,205 |
71,042 |
17.12 |
Turkey's main scrap sources on country basis in 2018 are presented below:
