In August this year, Turkey‘s scrap import volume decreased by 29.1 percent year on year and by 5.5 percent month on month to 1.39 million metric tons, according to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). The value of these imports totaled $504.25 million, down 37.5 percent year on year and 6.7 percent month on month.
Country
Amount (mt)
January-August 2025
January-August 2024
Y-o-y change (%)
August 2025
August 2024
Y-o-y change (%)
US
2,315,450
2,936,183
-21.1
313,033
469,228
-33.3
Netherlands
1,962,936
1,815,097
8.1
217,186
367,316
-40.9
UK
1,434,335
1,456,173
-1.5
176,402
99,012
78.2
Belgium
967,175
867,901
11.4
151,784
116,469
30.3
Denmark
639,618
663,187
-3.6
68,319
83,122
-17.8
Romania
617,742
607,462
1.7
73,697
77,284
-4.6
Lithuania
558,829
713,032
-21.6
36,746
143,470
-74.4
Russia
524,487
394,509
32.9
67,645
39,070
73.1
Germany
398,357
473,562
-15.9
–
74,505
–
Poland
397,945
325,150
22.4
23,820
50,064
-52.4
In the first eight months of the year, Turkey‘s scrap imports amounted to 12.25 million mt, down 9.4 percent, while the value of these imports decreased by 19.4 percent to $4.60 billion, both year on year.
Turkey’s scrap imports – last 12 months
In the given period, Turkey imported 2.31 million mt of scrap from the US, down 21.1 percent year on year, with the US ranking as Turkey‘s leading scrap import source, ahead of the Netherlands which supplied 1.96 million mt in the given period, up 8.1 year on year, and the UK which supplied 1.43 million mt of scrap, down 1.5 percent year on year.
Turkey‘s top 10 scrap import sources in the January-August period are as follows:
Shares in Turkey’s scrap imports – January-August 2025
