Correction to steel scrap heavy scrap domestic, delivered mill China price on March 7

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-STE-0149 steel scrap heavy scrap domestic, delivered mill China, which was published incorrectly on Friday March 7.

Fastmarkets’ weekly price assessment for MB-STE-0149 steel scrap heavy scrap domestic, delivered mill China was initially published as 2,400-2,550 yuan per tonne on March 7 due to a typographical error. This has since been corrected to 2,400-2,570 yuan per tonne.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change.

This price is part of the Fastmarkets’ scrap package.

For more information or to provide feedback on this correction notice or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to this price, please contact Carman Chew by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Carman Chew, re: China domestic scrap.”

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/methodology.

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