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.

ArcelorMittal’s Brazilian subsidiary, in a move intended to make the company more competitive domestically, signed a deal at the end of February to purchase local long steel producer Votorantim Siderurgia.

Prices for long steel products in Turkey have weakened over the past seven days due to low demand in the country’s domestic and export markets.

Steel demand in the Middle East will keep growing in 2018 and beyond, but the region needs trade protection measures to support local producers, according to UAE-based flat steel re-roller and coater Al Ghurair Iron & Steel (AGIS) chief executive officer Abu Bucker Husain.

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

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue its weekly export price assessment for rebar in Latin America, which is made on a $ per tonne fob main port basis.

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).

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

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday February 8 that are worth another look.