Fastmarkets clarifies publishing schedule for Iran steel billet, slab export prices

Fastmarkets wishes to clarify that it will not publish its assessments for MB-STE-0782 Steel billet export, fob ports Iran, $/tonne and MB-STE-0781 Steel slab export, fob ports Iran, $/tonne for the week of March 2-8, 2026 due to a public holiday in Iran.

Fastmarkets does not publish weekly prices during public holidays that take place in the country where the price in question is based. The pricing calendar can be found here.

Iran declared seven days of public holiday following the death of the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

Please send any questions or comments to pricing@fastmarkets.com and steel@fastmarkets.com. 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 the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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