Fastmarkets MB presents the key things we learned when the ferro-alloys community gathered for a busy week of meetings and contract negotiations in Lisbon at the 34th International Ferro-alloys Conference on November 11-13.

Emirates Steel, the UAE’s largest integrated steel producer, recorded a 33% year-on-year increase in steel production in the third quarter of 2012, the company said in a results statement on Sunday November 11.

Indian steel product export prices could fall if high import tariffs are applied to steel from countries such as South Korea, Turkey and Japan by the United States, sources have told Metal Bulletin.

Metal Bulletin reviews the major stories affecting the steel market over the past week.

Metal Bulletin reviews the major stories that have affected the steel market over the past week.

Metal Bulletin reviews the major stories affecting the steel market over the past week.

The heads of several steel industry associations in the United States remained divided on the effectiveness of the Section 232 tariffs on US steel imports but found some common ground on the subject of the yet to be signed US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Editor Vera Blei looks at the main news covered by Steel First over the past week.

Global steel scrap prices softened in the week ended Friday July 6, amid a fall in demand across most regions. Turkey booked no new deep-sea cargoes and the Indian market was also quiet, while prices on the East Coast of the United States remained flat due to a lack of deals.

Steel billet prices increased in most global regions last week, following consecutive rises in the Chinese billet market and better demand in some importing countries.