Ukraine: scrap 5% duty cancelled

The Verkhovnaya Rada of Ukraine has cancelled the 5% import duty on ferrous scrap. The new decree stipulates the zero imports duty instead of the current 5%. According to the industry committee head Victor Halasyuk, this is the second part of the help to the mining-metallurgical complex. “Our first step was to increase the export…

Ukraine should export metal not scrap

Metal products exports are more profitable than scrap exports. “According to our calculations, a country receives more from 1 ton of scrap turned into metal and exported than from the sale of 1 ton of scrap”, said Ukrmetallurgprom president Alexander Kalenkov. Mining-metallurgical complex is one of the main revenue-gatherers for Ukraine. “Scrap market is very…

Ukraine: metal makers short of scrap

Ukrainian metal companies underreceived 420 thousand tons of scrap. “Scrap procurement worsened in 2016. Even if there is no scrap export this year, we will still be short of it”, Alexander Kalenkov, Ukrmetallurgprom president, reported. Earlier the company predicted the liquid steel output in 2016 on the level of 28-29 million tons. “But only if…