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Date:2013/08/30
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in July this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit increased 22.5 percent to $9.8 billion compa...
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Date:2013/08/22
According to data released by the Indian steel ministry’s Joint Plant Committee, the country’s real consumption of finished steel products totaled 24.14 million tons in April-July, rising by 0.2% year on year.It’s analyzed that the lack of significan...
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Date:2013/08/27
Rodex Fasterens Corp., one of the major stainless steel fasteners manufacturers in Taiwan said that the company's third-quarter stainless steel screw orders might grow, driven by the increasing demand from US real estate market.The company said ...
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Date:2013/08/30
In the second quarter of the current year, South Africa's seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) increased by three percent quarter on quarter, according to the detailed statistics released by Statistics South Africa. The country'...
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Date:2013/08/22
Reuters reported that the world’s steel giant ArcelorMittal announced to shut down a blast furnace (BF) at steel plant in the US Indiana Harbor due to a technical failure.The steel giant said that it is not likely to have any difficulties to fulfill ...
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Date:2013/08/27
According to data released by the Japan Iron & Steel Association (JISF), Japan’s production of galvanized steel sheets totaled 5.8 million tons in the first half of this year, falling by 2.8% year on year.In the given period of time, the country’...
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Date:2013/08/30
In the first half of this year, Japan's cold rolled sheet and strip shipments decreased by 1.9 percent on year-on-year basis, according to the Japan Iron and Steel Federation (JISF) data. The country's CR sheet and strip shipments amounted ...
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Date:2013/08/22
In response to the decision of Brazil's Ministry of Finance to reduce the import duty rates on 100 items including steel products, the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr) said that lower import duty rates will negatively affect the Brazilian steel ind...
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Date:2013/08/27
According to data released by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), the US imported 2.475 million net tons of steel in July, rising by 0.6% from July.Among them, 1.956 million net tons were finished steel products, down by 0.9% from June.In t...
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Date:2013/08/29
According to statistics, Thailand’s scrap imports totaled 447,000 tons in the first half of this year, slumping by 54.7% year on year.In the first half of this year, Australia was the largest scrap exporter to Thailand with 78,000 tons, falling by 35...
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Date:2013/08/21
It’s reported that Japan’s Tokyo Steel announced to raise its scrap purchasing prices by ￥1,500/ton at its Tahara works and increase the prices by ￥1,000/ton at other four works from August 20th.After the adjustment, the H2 scrap purchasing prices ar...
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Date:2013/08/26
It’s reported that Japan’s Tokyo Steel announced to raise its scrap purchasing prices by ￥1,000/ton at its five works from August 23rd.After the adjustment, its H2 scrap prices averaged at ￥32,000~￥34,000/ton.Among them, the H2 scrap purchasing price...
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Date:2013/08/29
It’s reported that Chung Hung Steel, one of the major steel flat producers in Taiwan announced to raise its list prices for steel flat products by NT$600~NT$1,000/ton for September.Chung Hung Steel hiked the list prices for hot rolled (HR) and cold r...
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Date:2013/08/21
Affected by the higher scrap prices and lower production capacity, the Korean major steel mills have planned to hike bar price and the price rise is expected to become effective in this month.However, it’s said that the price rise might be unfavorabl...
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Date:2013/08/26
It’s reported that JSW Steel, the largest private-owned steelmaker in India are mulling to raise its steel prices by 5% from September 1st as the raw material prices have increased due to depreciated Indian Rupees.The official of JSW Steel indicated ...
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Date:2013/08/21
Thai stainless cold roller Posco-Thainox tried to warn Malaysian stainless mills for coil exporting surge to Thailand by a statement mentioning their consideration to request the Thai authorities to take trade measures to protect its domestic market....
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Date:2013/08/26
It’s reported that the European Commission (EC) has terminated the antidumping (AD) duty probe on certain stainless steel tube and pipe butt-fitting from Taiwan and China.In this June, the Defense Committee of the Stainless Steel Butt-Welding Fitting...
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Date:2013/08/20
France’s import prices of iron ore rose by 11.7% from a month ago but fell by 8.9% year on year in July, according to statistics released by the France's National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE).In July, France’s import pric...
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Date:2013/08/20
The demand for imported heavy plate in Turkey still remained weak and it is estimated that the situation would not turn better in a short time.Currently, Ukrainian mills like Alchevsk and LLyich offer US$550/ton CFR for heavy plate with Ocotober ship...
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Date:2013/08/20
India’s steelmaker Essar Steel has launched high quality color-coated products, which were mainly developed for the market in the state of Kerala.It’s learned that the high quality color-coated steel products including roofing and wood-finished steel...