17-18 February, Moscow hosted the 7th international forum "ferrous and non-ferrous
metals 2011". The event attracted a record number of participants – 350 from 35 countries. But, as acknowledged by the organizers of the forum of RUSMET, a reason to get together
's scrap procurement was not festive. Impressive turnout to the event
provided the impending decision of the Russian Government to restrict exports of ferrous and
non-ferrous metals on the background of stagnating itself by the scrap metal industry.
To date, experts estimate the condition of the scrap processing industry
as the hardest in the entire production chain for the production of metal products. In
export operations with scrap of ferrous metals in Russia there is a fee of 15%. When
the prevailing market conditions lomozagotovitelej this forces the exporters to pay
$45 per 1 ton of scrap purchased, excluding VAT. Of course, VAT refund from the budget, as
a rule, does not occur. In the best case it has to wait a very long time.
In the midst of the financial crisis on the Russian lomozagotoviteli was dealt a serious blow,
from which the industry never recovered and today. 30 March 2009 entered into force the order
The Federal customs service (FCS) No. 1514 dated December 2, 2008 "About places of declaring
certain types of goods", according to which the number of customs posts, placing
the export of wastes and scrap of ferrous and nonferrous metals, was reduced to ten. Market participants
agreed that this decision was lobbied by the Russian metallurgists not
brought use either their own or the suppliers of scrap. Currently, the procurement and export of
scrap in Russia remain significantly below pre-crisis levels, although the production of metal
recovering rapidly.
Following the attack on lomozagotoviteli may be a further reduction of customs
posts that regulate the export of scrap. Rumors about the preparation of such decisions by the Russian Government
appeared in winter. According to leaked open access information, from the fall of transshipment
cargo can be seriously affected ports of St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Rostov, Novorossiysk and
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
In fact, these rumors and analysis of the consequences of possible decisions of the Government of the Russian Federation and
was the main topic of discussion at the conference. Both experts themselves
lomozagotoviteli agreed that the initiators of the tightening of the rules of the game again
are a major Russian metallurgical company that is close to that
to destroy the largest non-market methods with modern
equipment scrap processing company, and in the future – and the entire industry lomozagotovki.
Rumors of further restricting customs checkpoints for export of scrap in Russia are heated
plans to build new steelmaking capacity, most of which
designed based on the production of steel billets – blooms and slabs. Counting only real
projects are underway, suggests that by 2015 Russia
will have to annually import about 10 million tons of steel scrap. At the same time, up to 40% of the volume
the production of Russian metallurgical enterprises today are semi-finished products that
favorable attitude of the authorities to metallurgists allows us to speak about the hidden export
scrap from Russia.
Different attitudes of the authorities to the scrap procurement and processing metallurgists have made participants
forum to appeal to the Government of the Russian Federation, urging him to full liberalization
the scrap metal on the ground, including the abolition of licensing and the transfer of all of the questions
for regulation of local authorities. It is also necessary to reduce the processing time
and the issuance of notes, certificates and other supporting documents, providing
the centrality of market participants to the procurement and sale of scrap and increasing responsibility
of state agencies for the timely execution of procedures accompanying lomozagotovki.
Lomozagotoviteli urged the Government to make an informed decision about the export of scrap,
guided by market ideology. Only such a solution possible
all parties will retain a sector of the workpiece scrap, and will allow it to evolve towards the creation of
modern high-tech processing enterprises in Russia, as well as
to meet the needs of Russian metallurgists. According to experts, the rise of scrap in Russia
is 38%, and the remaining 62% is irretrievably lost.
It is noteworthy that some participants set the example of Ukraine as a country where
the state controls the balance of interests of metallurgists and lomozagotovitelej. For example: in
Ukraine has export duty on scrap of ferrous metals 14,8 euros per tonne (more than
two times lower than in Russia) and it is reduced gradually, giving the Ukrainian scrap suppliers
a good competitive advantage over neighbors.
At the same time, the Ukrainian experience in development of scrap collection industry should not be
to idealize. The Ukrainian authorities are always easily ignored the interests of lomozagotovitelej,
if Tom insisted metallurgical lobby. The latest example is the December decision
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on prolongation of export duties by 24% for operations with scrap of non-ferrous
metals, which is contrary to the agreement of Ukraine's accession to the WTO and could lead to
the response of the countries – members of the world trade organization.
Alexei Onishchenko