PRICING NOTICE: Correction to steel slab export, fob Black Sea, CIS assessment

Fastmarkets has corrected its weekly steel slab export, fob Black Sea, CIS assessment, which was published incorrectly on Monday April 19 due to a reporter error.

The steel slab export, fob Black Sea, CIS (MB-STE-0016) price should have been $850-870 per tonne instead of $860-870 per tonne as published initially.

This has now been corrected in Fastmarkets’ pricing database, MinD.

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, please contact Vlada Novokreshchenova by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading ‘FAO: Vlada Novokreshchenova re: Fastmarkets CIS export slab price.’

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

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