In April this year, Turkey's scrap import volume increased by 5.83 percent year on year to 2.01 million metric tons and was up 17.9 percent compared to March, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $658.65 million, down 3.76 percent year on year and increasing by 23.7 percent month on month.
In the January-April period, Turkey's scrap imports amounted to 5.9 million mt, down 19 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 25 percent to $1.88 billion, both year on year.
In the given period, Turkey imported 1,052,122 mt of scrap from the US, down 27.22 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the Netherlands which supplied 892,533 mt in the given period, up 19.61 percent year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in the January-April period are as follows:
|
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jan-Apr 2019 |
Jan-Apr 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
April 2019 |
April 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
|
USA |
1,052,122 |
1,445,627 |
-27.22 |
316,652 |
455,339 |
-30.46 |
|
Netherlands |
892,533 |
746,204 |
19.61 |
293,716 |
183,818 |
59.79 |
|
UK |
752,329 |
1,109,172 |
-32.17 |
343,569 |
268,393 |
28.01 |
|
Russia |
648,175 |
804,092 |
-19.39 |
209,130 |
193,710 |
7.96 |
|
Belgium |
438,756 |
837,354 |
-47.60 |
150,101 |
263,739 |
-43.09 |
|
Germany |
322,185 |
163,016 |
97.64 |
103,845 |
29,251 |
255.01 |
|
Romania |
273,004 |
177,871 |
53.48 |
89,356 |
40,631 |
119.92 |
|
France |
240,650 |
182,181 |
32.09 |
84,871 |
43,838 |
93.60 |
|
Denmark |
240,296 |
305,403 |
-21.32 |
78,953 |
107,054 |
-26.25 |
|
Lithuania |
142,101 |
294,547 |
-51.76 |
70,030 |
51,074 |
37.11 |
Turkey's main scrap import destinations on country basis in the January-April period this year are presented below:
