In December last year, Turkey's scrap import volume increased by 22 percent year on year to 2.03 million metric tons and was up 8.31 percent compared to the previous month, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $646.3 million, up 64.9 percent year on year and up 2.6 percent compared to November.
In 2017, Turkey's scrap import volume amounted to 20.98 million mt, rising by 18.4 percent, while the value of these imports increased by 55 percent to $6.14 billion, both year on year.
In the given period, Turkey imported 3,797,672 mt of scrap from the US, up 16.47 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the UK which supplied 3,180,348 mt in the given period, up 22.05 percent year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in 2017 are as follows:
|
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2017 |
2016 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
December 2017 |
December 2016 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
|
USA |
3,797,672 |
3,260,728 |
16.47 |
490,147 |
163,158 |
200.41 |
|
UK |
3,180,348 |
2,605,859 |
22.05 |
416,230 |
337,520 |
23.32 |
|
Netherlands |
2,731,683 |
2,404,749 |
13.60 |
255,714 |
246,247 |
3.84 |
|
Russia |
2,353,897 |
2,527,231 |
-6.86 |
192,582 |
91,251 |
111.05 |
|
Belgium |
2,002,172 |
2,010,430 |
-0.41 |
64,535 |
244,353 |
-73.59 |
|
Lithuania |
918,534 |
469,044 |
95.83 |
38,398 |
117,960 |
-67.45 |
|
France |
743,230 |
587,116 |
26.59 |
103,160 |
36,776 |
180.51 |
|
Denmark |
647,301 |
476,503 |
35.84 |
71,042 |
52,760 |
34.65 |
|
Romania |
641,088 |
507,519 |
26.32 |
23,970 |
35,284 |
-32.07 |
|
Estonia |
584,458 |
413,309 |
41.41 |
33,878 |
47,096 |
-28.07 |
Turkey's main scrap sources on country basis last year are presented below:
