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Lead scrap – Slovakia: buyers and trade

Slovakia exports more lead scrap than it imports – by 0.70k t in 2025. Largest supplier: Czechia; largest buyer: Bulgaria. Data: Eurostat Comext (CN 7802 00 00) and the Companies register.

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0.10k timports 2025 · −57.5% y/y
0.80k texports 2025 · +136.6% y/y
2,490 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) Slovakia – lead scrap, thousand t: 2021 imports 0.20, exports 0.10; 2022 imports 0.20, exports 0.20; 2023 imports 0.20, exports 3.70; 2024 imports 0.30, exports 0.40; 2025 imports 0.10, exports 0.80. 0 1 2 3 4 imports 2021: 195 t exports 2021: 74.6 t 2021 imports 2022: 168 t exports 2022: 213 t 2022 imports 2023: 241 t exports 2023: 3,677 t 2023 imports 2024: 333 t exports 2024: 359 t 2024 imports 2025: 142 t exports 2025: 849 t 2025 imports exports

Partners 2025

Imports from (t)

Czechia77.8
Poland47.4
Romania9.60
Hungary6.90

Exports to (t)

Bulgaria345
Czechia265
Germany115
Hungary55
Netherlands32.3
2015–2025 series and unit values
Lead scrap trade – Slovakia, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 1861,3741,188 1,4051,299
2016 2971,224927 2,1351,390
2017 1501,1891,039 1,8802,498
2018 181405224 1,2401,441
2019 100367267 1,6111,620
2020 82348266 1,4981,438
2021 19574.6-120 1,7901,702
2022 16821345.5 2,1861,392
2023 2413,6773,436 2,470917
2024 33335925.3 2,0251,527
2025 142849707 2,4901,643
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 92.1513421 8231,441

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 – Slovakia, 2015–2025 Slovakia – spent lead-acid battery scrap: imports 59.8 t in 2015 and 0 t in 2025; exports – t in 2015 and 4,620 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 2018: 1,375 texports 2019: 1,240 texports 2020: 1,590 texports 2021: 1,682 texports 2022: 3,394 texports 2023: 2,466 texports 2024: 6,947 texports 2025: 4,620 t imports 2015: 59.8 timports 2016: 69.7 timports 2017: 14.8 timports 2018: 147 timports 2019: 16.6 timports 2020: 59 timports 2021: 1.20 timports 2022: 0.60 timports 2023: 0 timports 2024: 0 timports 2025: 0 t
imports exports tonnes (scrap mass)
Table of years (chart data)
Spent lead-acid battery scrap trade – Slovakia, 2015–2025
Year Imports (t)Exports (t)Balance (t) Import unit value (EUR/t)Export unit value (EUR/t)
2015 59.8–-59.8 2,285–
2016 69.7–-69.7 1,608–
2017 14.8–-14.8 2,540–
2018 1471,3751,229 490881
2019 16.61,2401,223 4,966789
2020 591,5901,531 3,0191,404
2021 1.201,6821,680 19,0231,380
2022 break in series 0.603,3943,394 13,5781,683
2023 02,4662,466 –1,212
2024 06,9476,947 –986
2025 04,6204,620 –797
2026 incomplete year: 2026-01/2026-08 01,4301,430 –799

Largest scrap suppliers (2025)

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Largest scrap destinations (2025)

  1. Romania 4,422 t
  2. Bulgaria 198 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 – Slovakia

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Map of scrap buyers in Europe – Slovakia SAKER Slovensko s.r.o. – Horný Hričov – non-ferrous metals processing plant, Horný Hričov (non-ferrous 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. SAKER Slovensko s.r.o.

    Horný Hričov – non-ferrous metals processing plant, Horný Hričov · Slovakia

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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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