In July this year, Turkey's scrap import volume decreased by 7.7 percent year on year and increased by 21.8 percent month on month to 1.47 million metric tons, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $540.75 million, down 17.6 percent year on year and up 18.9 percent month on month.
In the first seven months of the year, Turkey's scrap imports amounted to 10.85 million mt, down 6.1 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 16.4 percent to $4.10 billion, both year on year.
Turkey’s scrap imports - last 12 months
In the given period, Turkey imported 2 million mt of scrap from the US, down 18.8 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the Netherlands which supplied 1.74 million mt in the given period, up 20.6 year on year, and the UK which supplied 1.26 million mt of scrap, down 7.3 percent year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in the January-July period are as follows:
| Country | Amount (mt) | |||||
| January-July 2025 | January-July 2024 | Y-o-y change (%) | July 2025 | July 2024 | Y-o-y change (%) | |
| US | 2,002,379 | 2,466,955 | -18.8 | 279,432 | 345,206 | -19.1 |
| Netherlands | 1,745,746 | 1,447,781 | 20.6 | 243,064 | 135,984 | 78.7 |
| UK | 1,257,931 | 1,357,160 | -7.3 | 333,636 | 250,798 | 33.0 |
| Belgium | 815,392 | 751,431 | 8.5 | 74,527 | 102,057 | -27.0 |
| Denmark | 571,287 | 580,065 | -1.5 | 74,388 | 79,805 | -6.8 |
| Romania | 544,065 | 530,178 | 2.6 | 68,613 | 77,389 | -11.3 |
| Lithuania | 522,204 | 569,562 | -8.3 | 36,105 | 88,008 | -59.0 |
| Russia | 456,834 | 355,440 | 28.5 | 99,990 | 78,534 | 27.3 |
| Germany | 398,355 | 399,057 | -0.2 | 56,633 | 30,628 | 84.9 |
| Poland | 374,124 | 275,086 | 36.0 | 45,744 | 59,322 | -22.9 |
Shares in Turkey’s scrap imports - January-July 2025
