Imports of insulated wires and cables to Ukraine in January-November 2025 increased by 27.8% compared to the same period in 2024, reaching $541.5 million, according to the State Customs Service. In November of this year, imports of these products increased by 23.6% compared to November 2024, reaching $46.3 million, which is 22.6% higher than in October 2025.
Hungary was the largest supplier of wires and cables to the Ukrainian market in January-November, with a volume of $143.1 million (26.4% of imports). China ranks second with $116.7 million (21.6%), followed by Poland with $88.9 million (16.4%). In 2024, the main volumes were imported from Hungary ($120 million), Poland ($74.4 million), and China ($66.3 million, respectively).
According to State Customs Service data, at the end of 2024, imports of insulated wires and cables to Ukraine increased by 9.3% compared to 2023, to $475 million, while exports increased by 60.2%, to $1.275 billion.
The volume of exports of insulated wires and cables, including fiber optic cables, from Ukraine in January-November 2025 increased by 9.6% in monetary terms compared to the same period in 2024, reaching $1.315 billion, according to data from the State Customs Service.
Germany remains the largest importer of Ukrainian cables and wires, as it was a year earlier, but supplies to this country decreased by 6.8% to $443.7 million, and its share in total exports decreased by 5.9 percentage points to 33.7%.
The top three buyers also included Hungary with purchases worth $217.7 million (16.6% of exports) and Poland with $208.5 million (15.85%), while in January-November 2024, Poland ($172.4 million, 14.4%) and the Czech Republic ($155.9 million, 13%) were in second and third place.
In November 2025, exports of insulated wires and cables exceeded $117 million, which is 5.4% more than in November of the previous year.
According to the State Customs Service, in 2024 Ukraine already increased exports of these products by 60.2% compared to 2023, to $1.275 billion.
The production of cable and wire products in Ukraine in the first quarter of 2021 decreased by 8.2% (by weight of metal) compared to the same period in 2020, the Ukrelektrokabel association reported on its website on Monday.
“Due to quarantine restrictions, a rapid decrease in demand, an uncontrolled rise in prices for raw materials and other unfavorable factors, in the first quarter of 2021 the enterprises of the association and the cable industry of Ukraine showed a decline,” the association said.
According to the analysis of the activities of the member enterprises, the processing of copper decreased by 12.1%, PVC (polyvinyl chloride) compounds by 13.1%, polyethylene by 8.5%, and insulating varnishes by 25.2%.
A significant decrease in production was demonstrated, in particular, by self-supporting insulated and protected wires by 30.1%; power cables with voltage up to 1 kV by 23.5%; electrical wires for power units by 27.7%, and lighting cords and wires by 18.1%.
The production of wires for industrial blasting operations fell even more significantly by 66.2% and radio frequency cables by 55%.
In addition, Ukrelektrokabel informs, in the first quarter, TF Cable Ukraine LLC (Chernihiv), a manufacturer of cable and wire products for energy distribution networks, has completely ceased production and 25% of the personnel were laid off.
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, TF Cable Ukraine LLC with a charter capital of UAH 125.6 million was registered in 2008, and 100% of its shares are owned by the Polish company Tele-Fonika Kable.
According to Ukrelektrokabel, the negative events also included the forced reduction of 60% of the personnel at Cable Factory LLC (Kamianets-Podilsky), which produces installation cables and wires, as well as 15% of the personnel at Odesa-based Twomen Cable Factory (production of telecommunication copper and fiber-optic cables).
According to the data on the association’s website, it unites 18 manufacturers of cable and wire products, including large ones: Odeskabel, Pivdencable (Yuzhcable) plants (Kharkiv) and others.
