In July this year, Turkey's scrap import volume fell by 4.1 percent year on year to 1.83 million metric tons and was up 42.2 percent compared to June, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), The value of these imports totaled $563.43 million, down 16.2 percent year on year and increasing by 39.7 percent month on month.
In the January-July period, Turkey's scrap imports amounted to 10.84 million mt, down 14.5 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 22.6 percent to $3.44 billion, both year on year,
In the given period, Turkey imported 1,960,923 mt of scrap from the US, down 8.10 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey's leading scrap import source, ahead of the Netherlands which supplied 1,453,675 mt in the given period, up 3.03 year on year.
Turkey's top 10 scrap import sources in the January-July period are as follows:
|
Country |
Amount (mt) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
January-July 2019 |
January- July 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
July 2019 |
July 2018 |
Y-o-y change (%) |
|
USA |
1,960,923 |
2,133,745 |
-8.10 |
336,447 |
150,962 |
122.87 |
|
Netherlands |
1,453,675 |
1,410,969 |
3.03 |
203,370 |
206,171 |
-1.36 |
|
UK |
1,360,118 |
1,894,317 |
-28.20 |
205,429 |
382,438 |
-46.28 |
|
Russia |
1,247,609 |
1,606,145 |
-22.32 |
277,343 |
270,963 |
2.35 |
|
Belgium |
835,323 |
1,291,022 |
-35.30 |
207,192 |
169,165 |
22.48 |
|
Germany |
558,304 |
354,523 |
57.48 |
82,377 |
24,263 |
239.52 |
|
Romania |
519,957 |
379,447 |
37.03 |
73,253 |
67,996 |
7.73 |
|
France |
439,290 |
371,983 |
18.09 |
54,494 |
78,590 |
-30.66 |
|
Denmark |
395,900 |
496,636 |
-20.28 |
35,206 |
59,836 |
-41.16 |
|
Lithuania |
328,135 |
593,441 |
-44.71 |
33,521 |
94,634 |
-64.58 |
Turkey's main scrap import sources on country basis in the January-July period this year are presented below:
