According to the regulation, the export quota for 2026 has been set at zero for iron and steel scrap and ferrous metal ingots intended for remelting (HS 7204), which are included in the list of export products subject to licensing. In addition, a zero quota will also apply to copper scrap (HS 7404 00) and to electrical and electronic waste used in the recovery of precious metals.
Dmytro Kysylevskyi, Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament’s Committee on Economic Development, welcomed the decision in a statement shared on his social media account. Emphasizing that the domestic processing of strategic raw materials is critical for employment, value creation, and tax revenues, Kysylevskyi noted that this approach has been successfully implemented in many developed countries.
Scrap exports lead to budget losses
According to officials, processing one tonne of scrap into a finished product within Ukraine generates around 15,000 hryvnias in tax revenues, whereas the tax revenue from exported scrap is limited to approximately 100 hryvnias per tonne. Kysylevskyi stated that scrap exports—particularly to the EU—effectively result in tax losses, causing an estimated annual budget loss of about 3.5 billion hryvnias.
It is estimated that if the approximately 380,000 tonnes of scrap exported in 2025 had been processed domestically, the state could have generated an additional 5.7 billion hryvnias in tax revenues.
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