Ukraine's 2025 bauxite imports climb strongly, reshaping raw material flows

The ongoing trade activities, as of 2025, Ukraine revealed various new signals spanning across the bauxite and aluminum raw materials landscape. This is mainly because in 2025, the country expanded its imports of bauxite by 23.7 per cent in physical terms, reaching 43.5 thousand tonnes in comparison to the previous year.

As per the statistics shared by the State Customs Service (SCS), in 2025, Ukraine's imports of bauxite expanded by 15.8 per cent, reaching USD 4.754 million in monetary terms. The major countries from where the imports were taken include Turkey, holding the lion's share of 81.84 per cent of