In June this year, Turkey's scrap import volume decreased by 8.7 percent year on year and by 24.2 percent month on month to 1.21 million metric tons, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $455.28 million, down 16.7 percent year on year and 27.6 percent month on month.
In the first half of the year, Turkey's scrap imports amounted to 9.38 million mt, down 5.8 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 16.2 percent to $3.56 billion, both year on year.
Turkey’s scrap imports - last 12 months
In the given period, Turkey imported 1.72 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 1.50 million mt in the given period, up 14.5 year on year, and the UK which supplied 924,294 mt of scrap, down 16.5 percent year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in the January-June period are as follows:
|
Country
|
Amount (mt)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
January-June 2025
|
January-June 2024
|
Y-o-y change (%)
|
June 2025
|
June 2024
|
Y-o-y change (%)
|
|
US
|
1,722,946
|
2,121,749
|
-18.8
|
386,444
|
352,953
|
9.5
|
|
Netherlands
|
1,502,529
|
1,311,796
|
14.5
|
131,512
|
87,692
|
50.0
|
|
UK
|
924,294
|
1,106,363
|
-16.5
|
24,199
|
125,154
|
-80.7
|
|
Belgium
|
740,861
|
649,374
|
14.1
|
79,034
|
90,556
|
-12.7
|
|
Denmark
|
496,900
|
500,259
|
-0.7
|
40,390
|
49,582
|
-18.5
|
|
Lithuania
|
486,099
|
481,554
|
0.9
|
87,051
|
72,431
|
20.2
|
|
Romania
|
475,513
|
452,789
|
5.0
|
63,337
|
81,543
|
-22.3
|
|
Russia
|
356,844
|
276,906
|
28.9
|
79,576
|
103,952
|
-23.4
|
|
Germany
|
341,723
|
368,429
|
-7.2
|
78,954
|
55,551
|
42.1
|
|
Poland
|
328,380
|
215,764
|
52.2
|
74,014
|
22,062
|
235.5
|
Shares in Turkey’s scrap imports - January-June 2025
