Ukrainian companies in January this year increased the export of scrap ferrous metals by 45.5% compared to the same period last year – up to 8,280 thousand tons.
According to statistics released by the State Customs Service (SCS), in terms of money exports of scrap metal decreased by 8.5% – to $ 2.362 million.
At the same time, the country did not import scrap metal in the first month of the year.
Exports of scrap metal in January-2023 was carried out in Poland (95.68%), Slovakia (2.58%) and Germany (1.10%).
As reported, Ukraine in 2022, scrap exports of ferrous metals decreased by 11.5 times compared to the previous year – up to 53.557 tons, in monetary terms down to 12.4 times – to $ 19.271 million. At the same time, last year, the country reduced the import of scrap metal in kind by 12.6 times – to 1.824 thousand tons. Imports of scrap metal in 2022 was carried out mainly from Turkey (78.92% of supplies in monetary terms), Russia (13.25%) and Cyprus (5.08%), while exports – to Turkey (38.97%), Poland (34.25%) and Greece (10.12%).
