Delayed publication of steel billet index export, fob Black Sea, CIS

The publication of Fastmarkets’ MB-STE-0558 steel billet index export, fob Black Sea, CIS was delayed on Friday July 19 due to a reporter error.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

The steel billet index export, fob Black Sea, CIS price was published at $496 per tonne on July 19.

This price is part of the Fastmarkets steel price package.

For more information or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of this price or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to this price, please contact Zdravko Cherkezov by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Zdravko Cherkezov, re: CIS steel billet FOB Black Sea.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/about-us/methodology.

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