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Lead scrap – Malta: buyers and trade

Malta exports more lead scrap than it imports – by 0k t in 2025. Data: Eurostat Comext (CN 7802 00 00) and the Companies register.

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0lead scrap buyers in the country smelters 0 · processors 0
–imports 2025
0k texports 2025 · +85.0% y/y

Scrap trade

Imports and exports of lead scrap, 2021–2025 (thousand t)
Imports and exports of lead scrap, 2021–2025 (thousand t) Malta – lead scrap, thousand t: 2021 imports 0, exports 0; 2022 imports 0, exports 0; 2023 imports 0, exports 0; 2024 imports 0, exports 0; 2025 imports 0, exports 0. 0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 exports 2021: 12.9 t 2021 imports 2022: 0 t exports 2022: 34 t 2022 exports 2023: 46 t 2023 exports 2024: 10 t 2024 exports 2025: 18.5 t 2025 imports exports

Partners 2025

Exports to (t)

India18.5
2015–2025 series and unit values
Lead scrap trade – Malta, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 ––– ––
2016 –0.100.10 –10
2017 ––– ––
2018 ––– ––
2019 ––– ––
2020 ––– ––
2021 –12.912.9 –1,529
2022 03434 –1,512
2023 –4646 –1,648
2024 –1010 –1,500
2025 –18.518.5 –1,036
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 –151151 –415

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 – Malta, 2015–2025 Malta – spent lead-acid battery scrap: imports 0 t in 2022 and 0 t in 2025; exports – t in 2022 and – 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 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1 2022 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 imports 2022: 0 timports 2025: 0 t
imports exports tonnes (scrap mass)
Table of years (chart data)
Spent lead-acid battery scrap trade – Malta, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 ––– ––
2016 ––– ––
2017 ––– ––
2018 ––– ––
2019 ––– ––
2020 ––– ––
2021 ––– ––
2022 break in series 0–0 ––
2023 ––– ––
2024 ––– ––
2025 0–0 ––
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 ––– ––

Largest scrap suppliers (2025)

  1. Hong Kong 0 t
  2. China 0 t

Largest scrap destinations (2025)

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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 – Malta

The register has no buyers of this metal’s scrap in this country.

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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