Scrap exports from Ukraine have increased by 63.4% since the beginning of the year.%
According to the results of June 2025, the Ukrainian scrap industry increased exports of ferrous scrap by 115.2% compared to June 2024, and by 66.8% compared to the previous month. This is evidenced by the data of the State Customs Service.
Poland remains the key export destination for raw materials: 70.5% of the total supplies were sent there.
In 2024, scrap exports from Ukraine increased by 60% compared to 2023, to 293.2 thousand tons. In 2023, the volume of shipments of raw materials abroad exceeded 182.5 thousand tons, which is 3.4 times more than a year earlier.
Earlier, experts explained that scrap is exported to Poland, since Ukraine has a 180 euro duty on scrap exports to non-EU countries. On the other hand, the duty rate on exports to the EU is zero. Because of this, a number of unscrupulous exporters fraudulently export scrap first to the EU to avoid customs duties, and then to third countries, in particular Turkey. According to People's Deputy Dmitry Kisilevsky, Ukraine has already lost more than 2 billion budget revenues due to such re-exports. Now, according to estimates by Alexander Kalenkov, President of Ukrmetallurgprom, budget losses have already reached 3 billion hryvnias.
In 48 countries, 75 restrictions have been imposed on the export of scrap metal, because there are fewer and fewer raw materials, but more are needed, especially if the country's metallurgy is being modernized. The EU currently has restrictions on scrap exports to non-OECD countries. But the European Commission has already begun work to further reduce the outflow of raw materials.
Under such conditions, it is more expedient to export finished steel made from scrap rather than scrap itself, as metallurgical enterprises are among the largest taxpayers in Ukraine.