News Room - Steel Industry

Posted on 12 Mar 2008

Chinese mills looking at USD 900 FOB for HRC exports

It is reported that export offer for HRC steel coil are still on increasing trends despite weakening of domestic market prices. As per report, the highest quotation for commercial HRC has jumped to USD 860 per tonne to USD 870 per tonne FOB and other prevailing offers are at USD 840 per tonne USD 850 per tonne FOB.

Steel mills told Mysteel that there are more enquiries than export allocation and the lowest acceptable contract price is USD 830 per tonne FOB. Supply is said to be tight and export prices are expected to approach USD 900 per tonne FOB in the end.

A Shanghai based trader said "Though there is strong likelihood that prices are going to reach USD 900 per tonne FOB, we doubt it will sustain for a long period.”

(Sourced from MySteel.net)