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Lead scrap – Croatia: buyers and trade

Croatia exports more lead scrap than it imports – by 1k t in 2025. Largest supplier: Slovenia; largest buyer: Austria. Data: Eurostat Comext (CN 7802 00 00) and the Companies register.

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0.20k timports 2025 · +165.6% y/y
1.20k texports 2025 · +19.6% y/y
1,316 EUR/timport unit value 2025 – from declarations, not a market price

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Scrap trade

Imports and exports of lead scrap, 2021–2025 (thousand t)
Imports and exports of lead scrap, 2021–2025 (thousand t) Croatia – lead scrap, thousand t: 2021 imports 0, exports 0.80; 2022 imports 0, exports 0.60; 2023 imports 0, exports 0.60; 2024 imports 0.10, exports 1; 2025 imports 0.20, exports 1.20. 0 0.25 0.50 0.75 1 1.25 exports 2021: 795 t 2021 imports 2022: 13.4 t exports 2022: 572 t 2022 imports 2023: 16.4 t exports 2023: 627 t 2023 imports 2024: 65.7 t exports 2024: 979 t 2024 imports 2025: 175 t exports 2025: 1,171 t 2025 imports exports

Partners 2025

Imports from (t)

Slovenia64.6
Austria47.5
Bosnia and Herzegovina40.8
Germany21.6

Exports to (t)

Austria595
Germany235
Poland169
Italy93.3
Slovenia78.5
2015–2025 series and unit values
Lead scrap trade – Croatia, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 74.71,5401,465 1,3931,438
2016 113872760 1,4991,461
2017 26.1936910 1,8821,701
2018 33.5941908 1,4091,664
2019 –902902 –1,523
2020 –444444 –1,412
2021 –795795 –1,432
2022 13.4572558 1,5241,621
2023 16.4627611 1,679993
2024 65.7979913 1,5721,392
2025 1751,171996 1,3161,165
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 49.8769719 1,326996

Unit value (EUR/t) – value divided by mass from trade declarations (Comext); an approximation of the price level, not a market price. CN codes: 7802 00 00 . Lead: lead waste and scrap (7802 00 00). Spent lead-acid batteries – a separate series (battery mass, not lead content); the series are not added up. Source: Eurostat Comext – EU trade by CN8 (DS-045409), as of 2026-11-04. Balance = exports − imports. Comext

Spent lead-acid batteries – separate series

Spent lead-acid battery scrap trade – Croatia, 2015–2025 Croatia – spent lead-acid battery scrap: imports 167 t in 2015 and 2,986 t in 2025; exports – t in 2015 and 3,572 t in 2025. Break in series in 2022: from this year the series also includes waste and scrap of batteries (8549 11 90) – earlier and later years are not fully comparable. 0 2 k 4 k 6 k 8 k 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025 Break in series in 2022: from this year the series also includes waste and scrap of batteries (8549 11 90) – earlier and later years are not fully comparable.break in series exports 2016: 1,176 texports 2017: 3,002 texports 2018: 2,960 texports 2019: 3,990 texports 2020: 3,542 texports 2021: 4,227 texports 2022: 6,591 texports 2023: 4,339 texports 2024: 4,785 texports 2025: 3,572 t imports 2015: 167 timports 2016: 2,334 timports 2017: 3,289 timports 2018: 4,592 timports 2019: 4,777 timports 2020: 3,429 timports 2021: 4,009 timports 2022: 3,634 timports 2023: 3,141 timports 2024: 3,368 timports 2025: 2,986 t
imports exports tonnes (scrap mass)
Table of years (chart data)
Spent lead-acid battery scrap trade – Croatia, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 167–-167 717–
2016 2,3341,176-1,158 750720
2017 3,2893,002-287 929872
2018 4,5922,960-1,631 852846
2019 4,7773,990-787 810702
2020 3,4293,542114 733714
2021 4,0094,227218 819806
2022 break in series 3,6346,5912,958 919883
2023 3,1414,3391,199 845849
2024 3,3684,7851,417 807758
2025 2,9863,572587 723716
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 2,618946-1,672 679665

Largest scrap suppliers (2025)

  1. Italy 1,325 t
  2. Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,241 t
  3. Slovenia 420 t

Largest scrap destinations (2025)

  1. Hungary 3,135 t
  2. Slovenia 359 t
  3. Austria 45.4 t
  4. Germany 32.4 t

Unit value (EUR/t) – value divided by mass from trade declarations (Comext); an approximation of the price level, not a market price. CN codes: 8548 10 21, 8549 11 10, 8549 11 90 . Spent lead-acid batteries – 8548 10 21 (2015–2021), 8549 11 10 and 8549 11 90 (from 2022). From 2022 the series also includes waste and scrap of batteries (8549 11 90) – years before and after 2022 are not fully comparable. Battery mass, not lead content. Source: Eurostat Comext – EU trade by CN8 (DS-045409), as of 2026-11-04. Balance = exports − imports. Comext

EU-27 context

EU-27 exports of lead scrap to non-EU countries amounted to 41.1k t in 2025 (24.1k t in 2024), imports from outside the EU – 34.6k t. Main non-EU buyers: India 38.8k t, United Kingdom 1.80k t, Hong Kong 0.10k t. EU scrap market →

Buyers – Croatia

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Map of scrap buyers in Europe – Croatia C.I.A.K. d.o.o. – Zabok – Centar za reciklažu akumulatora i baterija: lead-acid battery recycling, smelting and production of lead alloys, Zabok (secondary lead smelter (battery breaking, smelting and refining))
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  1. C.I.A.K. d.o.o.

    Zabok – Centar za reciklažu akumulatora i baterija: lead-acid battery recycling, smelting and production of lead alloys, Zabok · Croatia

    smelter Scrap in a plant document A class A source · verified 2026-11-04

    Accepted grades: spent lead-acid batteries (whole or crushed)

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Straight-line distance (great circle) from the shipping point – not road distance. The description of the shipment procedure is general and does not constitute legal advice. Legal status as of 20 October 2026: Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 of the European Parliament and of the Council on shipments of waste. The classification of the waste and the obligations of the parties are determined case by case.

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