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Zinc scrap – Latvia: buyers and trade

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Latvia exports more zinc scrap than it imports – by 0.10k t in 2025. Largest supplier: Lithuania; largest buyer: India. Data: Eurostat Comext (CN 7902 00 00) and the Companies register.

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0k timports 2025 · −60.3% y/y

0.10k texports 2025 · −33.9% y/y

1,730 EUR/timport unit value 2025 – from declarations, not a market price

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Scrap trade

Imports and exports of zinc scrap, 2021–2025 (thousand t)

imports exports

Partners 2025

Imports from (t)

Lithuania6.10

Estonia3.40

Finland0.50

Czechia0.50

Croatia0.30

Exports to (t)

India32.9

Lithuania27.5

Poland2.70

2015–2025 series and unit values

Zinc scrap trade – Latvia, 2015–2025
Year	Imports (t)	Exports (t)	Balance (t)	Import unit value (EUR/t)	Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015	315	1,022	707	1,044	1,134
2016	127	448	321	956	1,212
2017	36.3	304	268	1,740	1,636
2018	250	411	162	1,353	1,967
2019	112	418	306	1,585	1,677
2020	192	677	484	1,296	1,480
2021	208	648	441	1,758	1,595
2022	200	489	289	1,677	2,397
2023	224	297	73	1,377	1,747
2024	28.2	95.4	67.2	1,576	1,890
2025	11.2	63.1	51.9	1,730	1,828
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08	1.50	52	50.5	1,830	2,058

Unit value (EUR/t) – value divided by mass from trade declarations (Comext); an approximation of the price level, not a market price. CN codes: 7902 00 00 . 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 zinc scrap to non-EU countries amounted to 64.5k t in 2025 (54.3k t in 2024), imports from outside the EU – 14.1k t. Main non-EU buyers: India 42k t, Thailand 16k t, Malaysia 1.50k t. EU scrap market →

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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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