In May 368 thousand tons of scrap were procured in Ukraine, up by 14% MoM. Of this 333 thousand tons were imported, up by 35% MoM. Scrap exports dropped to the 46% of the April volume, to 35 thousand tons. In January-May scrap procurement grew by 10%, to 1.561 million tons, with 1.31 million tons…
Scrap procuring companies of Ukraine hope that the creation of the free trade zone with Turkey will decrease the export duty on scrap. At present the Agreement on the Association of Ukraine and EU presupposes the zeroing of the export rate on scrap by 2024. In 2018 the duty dropped from 9.5 euros per ton…
Interpipe is pondering the creation of the database of unscrupulous scrap procuring enterprises in order not to cooperate with them in future. “The scrap shortage is an important factor for us, but on the other hand we are now more concerned with the quality of the raw materials we receive. We want to create the…
Ukrmetallurgprom and the Ukrainian association of secondary metals UAVtormet have addressed the Verkhovna Rada asking it to free the scrap metal operations from VAT. “This will make it impossible to some companies to carry out operations, which allow them to get the VAT reimbursed from the state budget”, the letter said. According to the letter,…
The Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a new decree on scrap procurement. Uzvtortsvetmet was ordered in two months to organize in all cities and district centers special points of acceptance of scrap from individuals. All the equipment containing ferrous and non-ferrous metals from January 1, 2019 will have to be submitted to Uzmetcombinat and Uzvtortsevtmet…
Ukrainian scrap procurers and metal companies ask the members of the Verkhovna Rada to pass the decree on de-shadowing of the scrap market. The draft decree presupposes making amendments to the current laws of scrap metal, accounting and to the Criminal Code. The decree cancels the division of the scrap into household and industrial and…
In 2018 Ukraine witnesses the falling of ferrous scrap procuring. In 5 months procurement totaled 1.51 million tons. “Since early March ArcelorMittal Kirviy Rih has been excluded from scarp procurement list. That’s some 30-40 thousand tons per month”, the UAVtormet association president and Keramet CEO Vladimir Bubley said. According to him, scrap procurement has also…
In May Russia exported 98.6 thousand tons of ferrous scrap to Belarus via railroad, down by 16.5% both MoM and YoY. In April the results were +4.6% and -16%, and in March +27.8% and +26.4% respectively. In January-May Russia exported 498.5 thousand tons of scrap to Belarus, down by 4.4% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)