The United States’ steel import licenses in January increased modestly month on month and significantly year on year, according to government data

Iran’s ministry of industries, mines and trade imposed new export tariffs on various products including steelmaking raw materials and steel products early this week, Fastmarkets learnt on Tuesday April 12.

Take a look at the five key talking points across the aluminium raw material markets ahead of Fastmarkets’ Bauxite & Alumina Conference

Growing uncertainty about end-user demand and input costs through 2022 has driven a change in consumer habits in Europe’s aluminium and steel markets, with traders foreseeing a continuation of hand-to-mouth buying going into 2023

Fastmarkets MB has corrected its weekly price assessment for CIS export rebar, which was published incorrectly on Monday February 24 due to an error in excluding transaction data that was submitted but mistakenly not included in the assessment process.

Exporters of steel scrap have continued to explore alternative destination markets for sales of deep-sea scrap cargoes because of the slump in prices in Turkey, sources said in the week ended Friday June 24

The recovery in Chinese steel consumption, especially that for rebar, has been “extraordinary”, while the downturn in the automotive sector may not necessarily mean stainless steel demand will decline this year, delegates heard at Fastmarkets’ Covid-19 and Asian ferro-alloys markets webinar on Tuesday June 30.

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Even with prices at all-time highs, there is a very high likelihood for upward momentum to persist over the coming decade, according to serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Lars Tvede

Fastmarkets will publish its Poland rebar price assessment a day early this week, on Thursday April 30, because of the Labor Day holiday on Friday May 1.