Analyst Guzhva: low duty on the export of scrap metal could deprive Ukraine of UAH 8 billion 
According to him, the most threatening situation in the last ten years has developed in the field of metallurgy. So, in the last year there has been an increase in the price of scrap in the world, the cost of one ton has increased from 250-300 dollars to more than 500. The analyst explained that this is due to the fact that most countries prohibit or restrict the export of scrap metal. “In Ukraine, the situation is a twenty-fold increase in the export of scrap metal. If for the whole last year we exported 17 thousand tons of scrap metal, then today we have already exported more than 500 thousand tons, ”he said.
Guzhva stressed that in the absence of any changes, Kiev can supply abroad a million tons of scrap, in connection with which the metallurgical enterprises of Ukraine will lose the ability to produce about ten million tons of steel. In this case, export duties will bring only two billion hryvnia to the country's budget, while domestic production would provide about ten billion hryvnia in revenues.
The expert emphasized that there are metallurgical enterprises in Ukraine with huge investments and new energy-saving technologies, but the only question is the provision of a crowbar. “There was an initiative to ban the export of scrap metal from Ukraine, but now we don't hear about it,” he said.
Earlier, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin predicted a very difficult winter for the country. In his opinion, the republic will not survive another heating season at current prices for gas and coal. “Under such conditions as today, with a coal price of $ 300 (and this is a historical maximum), with a gas price generally incomprehensible, since Asia is developing at an insane pace now, we are definitely not going through the next season 100 percent. And if we live the way we live today, then we have no chance, “said Klimkin