Spot prices for imported ferrous scrap into the key Vietnamese market slipped in the week to Friday October 29, on weakening sentiment caused by sharp losses in the ferrous complex in China, sources told Fastmarkets.

Metal Bulletin discontinued its weekly Saudi Arabia rebar import price on Tuesday July 3.

Steelmakers have been using some of their windfall profits to acquire downstream businesses at a higher-than-average rate, and industry participants believe this trend will continue through 2022

Global rebar demand will reach record levels in 2018-19, supported by growth in the construction sector, particularly in developed economies and across Asia, according to Celsa Group.

The Malaysian government wants more time to make a preliminary determination on an anti-dumping investigation relating to rebar imported from China and South Korea.

Commercial Metals Company’s acquisition of four Gerdau reinforcing bar mills will give the steelmaker a dominant position in the US market, industry analysts said.

Metal Bulletin has amended the Turkey domestic rebar and Turkey domestic wire rod price assessments.

Already tight supply of reinforcing bar in the western United States has been restricted further by the implementation of Section 232 import tariffs on steel goods from Canada, Mexico and the European Union, according to market participants.

Seaborne iron ore prices are seeing narrower 62-65% Fe spreads amid stronger preference for mid-grade fines and stable demand from buyers, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday June 8

The Dominican Republic government has imposed a final anti-dumping duty on imports of rebar from Spain.