The steel market in the United States is under blow over the past two weeks. The absence of any significant contracts for the sale of steel products is strengthened by pessimism on a global scale.
Import prices for a hot -rolled sheet are today in the region of $ 645 - $ 660 per ton in the port of Houston, for a cold -rocked sheet the price of imports is $ 740 - $ 780 per ton. For comparison, the price of the steel of local manufacturers for the domestic market on a hot -rolled sheet $ 675 per ton ($ 33.75 per centner) and for a ton of cold -rolled steel is $ 780 ($ 39 per centner).
It can be seen that import prices are only slightly lower than the prices of the domestic market and, accordingly, no one wants to invest in the purchase of metal rolling from foreign companies.
“Nobody buys nothing. If you look at the fourth quarter of last year, the purchase growth was extraordinary. In the first quarter of the current demand, the demand was smoothly falling. But now we rested on the wall,” they say in the American market.
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The USA significantly reduces the import of metal rolling
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Azovpromstal® 6 May 2012 г. 00:01 |
