Copper waste and scrap exports worldwide amounted to 29.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2023, a year-over-year decrease of roughly five percent. Two years earlier, the highest copper scrap export value of the decade was recorded, at 30.81 billion dollars. In 2021, more than six million metric tons of copper waste and scrap were exported across the globe.
Exports of copper waste and scrap worldwide from 2011 to 2023
(in billion U.S. dollars)
Figures exclude ingots or other similar unwrought shapes of remelted copper waste and scrap, ashes and residues containing copper, and waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators.
Values have been rounded.
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Trade Map. (June 28, 2024). Exports of copper waste and scrap worldwide from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391464/export-value-copper-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/
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Trade Map. (2024). Exports of copper waste and scrap worldwide from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391464/export-value-copper-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/
Trade Map. "Exports of Copper Waste and Scrap Worldwide from 2011 to 2023 (in Billion U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 28 Jun 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391464/export-value-copper-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/
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Exports of copper waste and scrap worldwide from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph], Trade Map, June 28, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391464/export-value-copper-waste-and-scrap-worldwide/