In 2024, global exports of ferrous waste and scrap amounted to **** billion U.S. dollars. This represented a decline of roughly ** percent in comparison to the decade-high of ** billion U.S. dollars recorded three years earlier. The U.S. is the largest exporter of ferrous waste and scrap across the globe.
Figures include remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel. It excludes slag, scale and other waste from the production of iron or steel, radioactive waste and scrap, fragments of pigs, blocks or other primary forms of pig iron.
Values have been rounded.
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Trade Map. (June 16, 2025). Exports of ferrous waste and scrap worldwide from 2011 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 12, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391455/export-value-ferrous-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/
Trade Map. "Exports of ferrous waste and scrap worldwide from 2011 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars)." Chart. June 16, 2025. Statista. Accessed July 12, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391455/export-value-ferrous-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/
Trade Map. (2025). Exports of ferrous waste and scrap worldwide from 2011 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 12, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391455/export-value-ferrous-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/
Trade Map. "Exports of Ferrous Waste and Scrap Worldwide from 2011 to 2024 (in Billion U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 16 Jun 2025, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391455/export-value-ferrous-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/
Trade Map, Exports of ferrous waste and scrap worldwide from 2011 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391455/export-value-ferrous-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/ (last visited July 12, 2025)
Exports of ferrous waste and scrap worldwide from 2011 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph], Trade Map, June 16, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391455/export-value-ferrous-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/
