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Lead scrap – Latvia: buyers and trade

Latvia exports more lead scrap than it imports – by 4.50k t in 2025. Largest supplier: Estonia; largest buyer: Germany. Data: Eurostat Comext (CN 7802 00 00) and the Companies register.

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0.20k timports 2025 · −89.9% y/y
4.70k texports 2025 · +114.1% y/y
1,459 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) Latvia – lead scrap, thousand t: 2021 imports 1.30, exports 1; 2022 imports 0.90, exports 0.30; 2023 imports 0.90, exports 1.80; 2024 imports 2.20, exports 2.20; 2025 imports 0.20, exports 4.70. 0 1 2 3 4 5 imports 2021: 1,260 t exports 2021: 969 t 2021 imports 2022: 898 t exports 2022: 271 t 2022 imports 2023: 854 t exports 2023: 1,754 t 2023 imports 2024: 2,198 t exports 2024: 2,200 t 2024 imports 2025: 222 t exports 2025: 4,711 t 2025 imports exports

Partners 2025

Imports from (t)

Estonia73.1
Lithuania65.8
Finland57.8
United States17.9
Sweden7.40

Exports to (t)

Germany2,176
Poland2,118
India165
Lithuania134
Czechia117
2015–2025 series and unit values
Lead scrap trade – Latvia, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 4,271823-3,447 736838
2016 4,4841,054-3,430 7071,040
2017 3,3971,148-2,249 8871,145
2018 2,9601,148-1,812 9021,063
2019 2,4471,020-1,427 7871,175
2020 2,1581,860-298 8181,095
2021 1,260969-291 7381,120
2022 898271-627 8041,511
2023 8541,754900 9752,106
2024 2,1982,2001.70 1,0942,122
2025 2224,7114,489 1,4591,886
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 26.3908881 1,5191,636

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 – Latvia, 2015–2025 Latvia – spent lead-acid battery scrap: imports 23.8 t in 2015 and 5,187 t in 2025; exports 5,080 t in 2015 and 1,323 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 2015: 5,080 texports 2016: 5,878 texports 2017: 7,339 texports 2018: 4,416 texports 2019: 4,446 texports 2020: 3,847 texports 2021: 4,774 texports 2022: 3,681 texports 2023: 1,705 texports 2024: 1,185 texports 2025: 1,323 t imports 2015: 23.8 timports 2017: 0 timports 2019: 0.10 timports 2021: 24.1 timports 2022: 0 timports 2023: 11.2 timports 2024: 1,180 timports 2025: 5,187 t
imports exports tonnes (scrap mass)
Table of years (chart data)
Spent lead-acid battery scrap trade – Latvia, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 23.85,0805,057 697793
2016 –5,8785,878 –819
2017 07,3397,339 –889
2018 –4,4164,416 –838
2019 0.104,4464,446 1,370761
2020 –3,8473,847 –669
2021 24.14,7744,750 832733
2022 break in series 03,6813,681 –796
2023 11.21,7051,694 359851
2024 1,1801,1855.10 802806
2025 5,1871,323-3,865 735717
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 683186-497 652668

Largest scrap suppliers (2025)

  1. United Kingdom 3,449 t
  2. Poland 1,424 t
  3. Estonia 314 t

Largest scrap destinations (2025)

  1. Estonia 1,323 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 – Latvia

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Map of scrap buyers in Europe – Latvia SIA Euro Lom – Rīga – scrap yards (Imanta, Pļavnieki), Rīga (non-ferrous and stainless steel scrap recycling) SIA EcoLead – Kalnciems – lead-acid battery recycling and smelting of lead into ingots, Kalnciems (spent battery processing and crude lead smelting) SIA Euro Lom – Jēkabpils – scrap yard, Jēkabpils (non-ferrous and stainless steel scrap recycling)
smelter (document or value-chain link) smelter – type of plant (semi-finished products, foundry, zinc alloys and zinc oxide) processor Base map: Natural Earth (public domain). Location of some plants: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

  1. SIA EcoLead

    Kalnciems – lead-acid battery recycling and smelting of lead into ingots, Kalnciems · Latvia

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

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

    Buyer card · Source ↗

  2. SIA Euro Lom

    Jēkabpils – scrap yard, Jēkabpils · Latvia

    processor From the chain link – grades not established B class B source · verified 2026-10-08

    Buyer card · Source ↗

  3. SIA Euro Lom

    Rīga – scrap yards (Imanta, Pļavnieki), Rīga · Latvia

    processor From the chain link – grades not established B class B source · verified 2026-10-08

    Accepted grades: insulated copper wire and cable scrap

    Buyer card · Source ↗

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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