The European Union (EU) imported 2.95 million tons (+2.7% y\/y) of metallurgical raw materials of Russian origin in the first half of 2025. The expenses for the import of the corresponding products amounted to \u20ac1.22 billion (-12.7% y\/y). This is evidenced by calculations of GMK Center based on Eurostat data.<\/p>\n
\u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0439 \u043d\u0430\u0441 \u0442\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0436 \u0443 Viber<\/a> \u0442\u0430 Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n The main volume of imports falls on semi-finished products. In the first 6 months of 2025, 1.84 million tons of semi-finished products were directed to the EU (+7.8% y\/y). The expenses for the respective import were \u20ac837.35 million (-5.6% y\/y). The largest consumers of semi-finished products from Russia are Belgium \u2013 688.48 thousand tons (+1.6% y\/y), Italy \u2013 435.77 thousand tons (+22.6% y\/y), Czech Republic \u2013 370.34 thousand tons (+60.8% y\/y), and Denmark \u2013 306.45 thousand tons (+8.5% y\/y).<\/p>\n Large volumes of imports also include pig iron \u2013 696.99 thousand tons (+35.3% y\/y). The revenue of Russian GMK companies from supplying the corresponding products to the EU amounted to \u20ac254.45 million (+21.9% y\/y). The main volumes were directed to Italy \u2013 524.62 thousand tons (+41.2% y\/y), Latvia \u2013 87.27 thousand tons (+5.5% y\/y), and Belgium \u2013 31.07 thousand tons (0 thousand tons in January-June 2024).<\/p>\n Deliveries of Russian ferroalloys to the EU market in January-June 2025 were almost non-existent \u2013 3.8 tons compared to 42.79 thousand tons a year earlier.<\/p>\n The import of scrap from Russia amounted to 36.57 thousand tons (+2.1 times y\/y), with expenses on purchases reaching \u20ac12.66 million (+37.3% y\/y). Iron ore imports stood at 2.04 thousand tons (9.36 thousand tons in January-June 2024). At the same time, the import of direct reduced iron (DRI) for this period amounted to 374.18 thousand tons (-35.4% y\/y) worth \u20ac116.49 million (-41.2% y\/y).<\/p>\n In June 2025, the EU imported 382.73 thousand tons (+15.3% y\/y; -15.9% m\/m) of GMK products from Russia, including:<\/p>\n \u2013 pig iron \u2013 0 thousand tons (101.52 thousand tons in June 2024; 0 thousand tons in May); The revenue of Russian metallurgists from exports to the EU in June amounted to \u20ac163.32 million, which is 3.3% higher y\/y and 14.2% lower m\/m.<\/p>\n Views: 17<\/p>\n \u0422\u0435\u0433\u0438: direct reduced iron (DRI)<\/a>, economic analysis<\/a>, EU imports<\/a>, European Union<\/a>, Eurostat data<\/a>, Export Revenue<\/a>, ferroalloys<\/a>, GMK products<\/a>, Import statistics<\/a>, import trends<\/a>, iron ore<\/a>, metallurgical raw materials<\/a>, Metallurgists<\/a>, pig iron<\/a>, Russia<\/a>, Russian exports<\/a>, scrap<\/a>, semi-finished products<\/a>, supply chain<\/a>, trade data<\/a>\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union (EU) imported 2.95 million tons (+2.7% y\/y) of metallurgical raw materials of Russian origin in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[139387,139388,139389,139390,28444,139391,139392,2000,299,5187,1699,139393,16939,139394,139395,139396,139397,128991,139398,139399,44537,657,139400],"class_list":{"0":"post-404486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agricultural-technologies","9":"tag-agro-vinnytsia-field-day","10":"tag-bednar","11":"tag-deep-cultivator","12":"tag-demonstrations","13":"tag-disc-cultivator","14":"tag-equipment-efficiency","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-fertilizer-hopper","20":"tag-harrow","21":"tag-mounted-cultivator","22":"tag-new-products","23":"tag-pre-sowing-compactors","24":"tag-proven-solutions","25":"tag-soil-cultivation","26":"tag-sowing-complexes","27":"tag-sowing-technologies","28":"tag-tractors","29":"tag-ukraine","30":"tag-versatile-cultivator"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115161390365666462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2013 semi-finished products \u2013 355.72 thousand tons (+106.5% y\/y; +8% m\/m);
\u2013 DRI \u2013 20.99 thousand tons (-59.9% y\/y; -81.2% m\/m);
\u2013 scrap \u2013 6.02 thousand tons (+130.8% y\/y; -53.6% m\/m);
\u2013 iron ore \u2013 0 thousand tons (0 thousand tons in June 2024; 0.9 thousand tons in May).<\/p>\n