With the international cobalt metal market falling rapidly between December 2018 and February this year, the arbitrage between the international and Chinese cobalt metal price has gradually turned in favor of Chinese imports.

South Korea’s government and major steelmaker Posco both oppose China’s ongoing stainless steel anti-dumping investigation and claim that no trade measures should be imposed because Korean exports do not damage the Chinese domestic industry.

Fastmarkets MB proposes to amend the publication date of the assessment of manganese ore inventories at the main Chinese ports of Tianjin and Qinzhou from every Wednesday to every Monday.

Fastmarkets will cease the daily publication of its physical arbitrage for imports of copper, aluminium, zinc and nickel into China from April 1, 2019. The data will still appear in Fastmarkets’ price book on a daily basis as usual, however.

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday March 29 that are worth another look.

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Thursday March 28 that are worth another look.

London Metal Exchange three-month base metals prices continue to produce sluggish price action, down 0.2% on average in the morning of Thursday March 28.

Following a shift to the 65% Fe fines index as the base price for some pellet contracts, Fastmarkets will begin publishing an implied spot blast furnace pellet premium over its MB 65% Fe Brazilian Iron Ore Index alongside the existing implied premium over its 62% Fe index.

The American Line Pipe Producers Association has urged United States President Donald Trump's administration to maintain the Section 232 tariffs on steel imports from Canada and Mexico.

A motion to undo United States President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium has been denied, the US Court of International Trade (CIT) said in a ruling dated Monday March 25.