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Metal Bulletin reviews some of the key news and price moves from the past week in the global steel market.

Turkish steel producers have managed to get lower prices from the US East Coast this week, taking the advantage of strong supplies, while Taiwanese and Indian scrap import prices followed a similar trend.

A plunge in silico-manganese futures prices on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE) at the start of this week was driven by weakness in China’s steel market, market participants told Fastmarkets.

Steel billet prices in the global markets showed mixed dynamics during the working week from Monday May 7 to Friday May 11.

The uncertainty created by the announcement of import tariffs under Section 232 in the United States kept Turkish steel mills out of the deep-sea scrap markets during the working week from Monday March 19 to Friday March 23, although strong demand in the US domestic market kept sentiment positive.

The global long steel market has reached its bottom level, with activity expected to pick up in the near term, according to the rebar sector’s global organisation.

Millions of tonnes of material are likely to be redirected to steel markets outside of the United States if US President Donald Trump levies strict tariffs or quotas on imports after the Section 232 investigation.

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