Discontinuation of Fastmarkets’ US steel plate, rebar converted price assessments

Fastmarkets has discontinued the following converted price assessments:

• MB-STE-0467: Steel cut-to-length plate carbon grade, fob mill US, $/short ton
• MB-STE-0465: Steel reinforcing bar (rebar), fob mill US, $/short ton

These prices are converted from the following markets:

• MB-STE-0172: Steel cut-to-length plate carbon grade, fob mill US, $/cwt
• MB-STE-0170: Steel reinforcing bar (rebar), fob mill US, $/cwt

These markets can now be converted to $/short ton by using the conversion service on the Fastmarkets Dashboard.

If you have any comments on the discontinuation of these prices, please contact Barbara O’Donovan by email at pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Barbara O’Donovan, re: converted price assessments.”

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

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