ASIA STEEL SCRAP DIGEST: S Korea expected to reduce bid price again this week

Steel scrap import prices in South Korea were likely to drop again in the next few days with buyers looking to take advantage of tepid local demand in Japan and falling prices in other key Asian import markets, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday August 4.

South Korea likely to push Japan prices down furtherProduction curbs weigh on Chinese scrap demandOffers for bulk cargoes to Vietnam fallTaiwan buys containerized scrap for less than $440 per tonne cfr Taiwan.
South Korea
Market sources expected to see lower bid prices for Japanese material in a scrap tender to be held by a major Korean mill later this week.
With mill maintenance rounds reducing Japanese domestic scrap intake recently, a Japanese supplier source said that the South Korean steelmaker may take this opportunity to try for lower prices this week, after having bid ?47,000 ($431) per tonne fob for H2-grade material last week.

But a Japanese trader source did not sense much weakness in the domestic market, particularly on the higher grades, and said that the generation of Shindachi...

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