In December last year, Turkey's scrap import volume increased by 11.9 percent year on year and by 5.6 percent month on month to 1.86 million metric tons, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $734.39 million, up 14.7 percent year on year and 4.8 percent month on month.
In 2024, Turkey's scrap imports amounted to 20.04 million mt, up 6.7 percent, while the value of these imports increased by 9.5 percent to $8.33 billion, both year on year.
In the given year, Turkey imported 4.53 million mt of scrap from the US, up 0.8 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the Netherlands which supplied 2.77 million mt in the given period, up 27.8 year on year, and the UK which supplied 2.22 million mt of scrap, up 72.7 percent year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in 2024 are as follows:
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2024 |
2023 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
December 2024 |
December 2023 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
US |
4,532,575 |
4,495,983 |
0.8 |
304,596 |
403,013 |
-24.4 |
Netherlands |
2,766,170 |
2,164,899 |
27.8 |
240,143 |
243,524 |
-1.4 |
United Kingdom |
2,216,705 |
1,283,326 |
72.7 |
246,357 |
77,088 |
219.6 |
Belgium |
1,331,535 |
1,508,669 |
-11.7 |
189,637 |
79,454 |
138.7 |
Lithuania |
1,085,242 |
753,259 |
44.1 |
151,557 |
- |
- |
Denmark |
935,754 |
981,531 |
-4.7 |
90,042 |
123,692 |
-27.2 |
Romania |
913,174 |
998,859 |
-8.6 |
104,828 |
102,874 |
1.9 |
Germany |
645,504 |
782,918 |
-17.6 |
58,096 |
32,310 |
79.8 |
France |
624,050 |
501,117 |
24.5 |
100,556 |
72,509 |
38.7 |
Russia |
613,683 |
496,495 |
23.6 |
57,888 |
73,739 |
-21.5 |
Turkey's scrap imports share - 2024
