In December last year, Turkey's scrap import volume increased by 25.4 percent both on year on year and on month-on-month basis to 2.04 million metric tons, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $510.43 million, down 6.7 percent year on year and increasing by 30.2 percent month on month.
In 2019, Turkey's scrap imports amounted to 18.86 million mt, down 8.7 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 21.3 percent to $5.62 million, both year on year,
In the given period, Turkey imported 3,837,607 mt of scrap from the US, up 3.6 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the Netherlands which supplied 2,598,123 mt in the given period, up 12.08 year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in the January-December period are as follows:
|
Country |
Amount (mt) |
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January- December 2019 |
January- December 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
December 2019 |
December 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
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USA |
3,837,607 |
3,704,581 |
3.59 |
480,905 |
290,050 |
65.80 |
|
|
Netherlands |
2,598,123 |
2,318,151 |
12.08 |
253,194 |
133,349 |
89.87 |
|
|
UK |
2,190,026 |
2,648,432 |
-17.31 |
203,712 |
129,795 |
56.95 |
|
|
Russia |
1,881,218 |
2,518,099 |
-25.29 |
150,768 |
218,375 |
-30.96 |
|
|
Belgium |
1,304,098 |
1,911,159 |
-31.76 |
243,471 |
157,352 |
54.73 |
|
|
Germany |
929,701 |
676,259 |
37.48 |
80,656 |
63,962 |
26.10 |
|
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Romania |
851,130 |
676,583 |
25.80 |
74,820 |
83,205 |
-10.08 |
|
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France |
720,011 |
733,528 |
-1.84 |
49,196 |
57,557 |
-14.53 |
|
|
Denmark |
628,158 |
807,338 |
-22.19 |
32,202 |
73,363 |
-56.11 |
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Lithuania |
593,379 |
224,806 |
163.95 |
44,595 |
16,002 |
178.68 |
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Turkey's main scrap import sources on country basis in the January-December period last year are presented below:
