In December last year, Turkey's scrap import volume decreased by 6.6 percent year on year and by 0.4 percent month on month to 1.74 million metric tons, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $624.99 million, down 14.8 percent year on year and by 0.5 percent month on month.
In the full year of 2025, Turkey's scrap imports amounted to 18.71 million mt, down 6.7 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 16.7 percent to $6.94 billion, both year on year.
Turkey’s scrap imports - last 12 months
In the given period, Turkey imported 3.61 million mt of scrap from the US, down 20.4 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the Netherlands which supplied 2.76 million mt in the given period, down 0.1 percent year on year, and the UK which supplied 2.09 million mt of scrap, down 5.7 percent year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in 2025 are as follows:
| Country | Amount (mt) | |||||
| 2025 | 2024 | Y-o-y change (%) | December 2025 | December 2024 | Y-o-y change (%) | |
| US | 3,608,402 | 4,532,238 | -20.4 | 359,828 | 304,608 | 18.1 |
| Netherlands | 2,763,663 | 2,766,179 | -0.1 | 289,749 | 240,152 | 20.7 |
| UK | 2,089,323 | 2,216,706 | -5.7 | 124,298 | 246,357 | -49.5 |
| Belgium | 1,332,014 | 1,331,534 | - | 54,099 | 189,637 | -71.5 |
| Romania | 1,002,402 | 913,465 | 9.7 | 99,947 | 105,119 | -4.9 |
| Denmark | 924,871 | 935,754 | -1.2 | 60,006 | 90,042 | -33.4 |
| Russia | 909,399 | 613,682 | 48.2 | 83,875 | 57,888 | 44.9 |
| Lithuania | 873,332 | 1,085,281 | -19.5 | 112,799 | 151,596 | -25.6 |
| Germany | 697,390 | 645,522 | 8.0 | 81,488 | 58,113 | 40.2 |
| France | 549,829 | 624,052 | -11.9 | 46,633 | 100,556 | -53.6 |
Shares in Turkey’s scrap imports - 2025
