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Proposal to discontinue certain welded, seamless tube and pipe prices

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue eight assessments for seamless and welded tube and pipe in Europe and Asia.

December 22, 2025
By Fastmarkets pricing team
Pricing notice Steel

The proposal is due to subdued activity and a lack of available data in Europe and parts of Asia.

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue the following prices:

MB-STE-0825 Europe welded Spiral DSAW linepipe API 5L X65 fob €/tonne

MB-STE-0823 Europe welded ERW linepipe API 5L X42 fob €/tonne

MB-STE-0834 India welded ERW linepipe API 5L X65 export fob US$/tonne

MB-STE-0807 Seamless mechanical tube (EN10297) fob Europe €/tonne

MB-STE-0808 Cold-drawn Seamless precision tube (EN10305) fob Europe €/tonne

MB-STE-0809 Seamless boiler tube (EN10216b) fob Europe €/tonne

MB-STE-0806 Seamless gas and water pipe (EN10255) fob Europe €/tonne

MB-STE-0835 India welded LSAW linepipe API 5L X65 export fob US$/tonne

These prices are a part of the Fastmarkets steel package.

The consultation period for this discontinuation starts December 22, 2025, and will end on March 20, 2026, with the change taking place, subject to market feedback, from April 8, 2026.

To provide feedback on the proposal or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices please contact steel@fastmarkets.com and pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: welded and seamless tube and pipe prices.”

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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