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Lead scrap – Luxembourg: buyers and trade

Luxembourg exports more lead scrap than it imports – by 0.20k t in 2025. Largest supplier: France; largest buyer: France. 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
0k timports 2025
0.20k texports 2025 · +50.5% y/y
9,363 EUR/timport unit value 2025 – from declarations, not a market price

Scrap trade

Imports and exports of lead scrap, 2021–2025 (thousand t)
Imports and exports of lead scrap, 2021–2025 (thousand t) Luxembourg – lead scrap, thousand t: 2021 imports 0, exports 0.20; 2022 imports 0, exports 0.10; 2023 imports 0, exports 0.10; 2024 imports 0, exports 0.10; 2025 imports 0, exports 0.20. 0 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 exports 2021: 227 t 2021 imports 2022: 0.30 t exports 2022: 146 t 2022 imports 2023: 0 t exports 2023: 118 t 2023 imports 2024: 0 t exports 2024: 111 t 2024 imports 2025: 9.60 t exports 2025: 167 t 2025 imports exports

Partners 2025

Imports from (t)

France9.60
Germany0
Italy0

Exports to (t)

France112
Germany43.1
Belgium11.2
2015–2025 series and unit values
Lead scrap trade – Luxembourg, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 0160160 –1,396
2016 0145145 –1,483
2017 –157157 –1,760
2018 –316316 –1,597
2019 –153153 –1,559
2020 0181181 –1,345
2021 –227227 –1,516
2022 0.30146145 1,4131,592
2023 0118118 –1,808
2024 0111111 –1,556
2025 9.60167157 9,3631,653
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 36.410063.7 1,1081,331

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 – Luxembourg, 2015–2025 Luxembourg – spent lead-acid battery scrap: imports 0.60 t in 2015 and 1.70 t in 2025; exports 0.20 t in 2015 and 1,778 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. 0 500 1 k 1.50 k 2 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: 0.20 texports 2017: 0 texports 2018: 0 texports 2019: 0 texports 2020: 0 texports 2022: 1,486 texports 2023: 1,513 texports 2024: 1,726 texports 2025: 1,778 t imports 2015: 0.60 timports 2016: 1.50 timports 2017: 0.60 timports 2018: 0.60 timports 2019: 0.30 timports 2020: 0.30 timports 2021: 0.40 timports 2022: 6 timports 2023: 1.10 timports 2024: 0.10 timports 2025: 1.70 t
imports exports tonnes (scrap mass)
Table of years (chart data)
Spent lead-acid battery scrap trade – Luxembourg, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 0.600.20-0.40 11,9339,240
2016 1.50–-1.50 11,838–
2017 0.600-0.60 23,333–
2018 0.600-0.60 27,313–
2019 0.300-0.30 16,563–
2020 0.300-0.30 26,557–
2021 0.40–-0.40 35,878–
2022 break in series 61,4861,480 3,142797
2023 1.101,5131,512 1,831738
2024 0.101,7261,726 48,810686
2025 1.701,7781,777 44,118598
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 0.101,2951,295 213,410549

Largest scrap suppliers (2025)

  1. Belgium 1.70 t
  2. France 0 t
  3. Germany 0 t
  4. China 0 t

Largest scrap destinations (2025)

  1. Germany 1,778 t
  2. Belgium 0 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 – Luxembourg

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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