CIS STEEL BILLET: Market continues decline with new booking

March 21, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com / Article Link

Export steel billet prices from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) continued to slide after a nosedive on Friday March 20, following the slump in import scrap prices earlier in the week.

A lack of buying activity in the majority of sales outlets amid the outbreak of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) added to the negative sentiment.
"The active buyers are only in China now," one trader said.
A large cargo of Russian billet was reported sold to a trader for further sale to China at $350 per tonne fob Black Sea.
The producer offered billet at $370 per tonne fob Black Sea last week, one source said, adding that it was ready to provide discounts.

"So I believe $350...

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