CIS STEEL BILLET: Prices move up on reports of new deals

December 23, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com / Article Link

The price of steel billet from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) exported via the Black Sea continued to move up this week on the back of a new deal for wire-rod grade material to Turkey on Tuesday, December 22.

Billet offers from Russian and Ukrainian suppliers were heard at $580-605 per tonne fob Black Sea on Tuesday, little changed from Monday.
Turkey remained the major consumer of steel billet originating in the CIS, but most recent deals have been for wire-rod grade semis, sources told Fastmarkets.

One Ukrainian supplier was heard to have sold 10,000 tonnes of wire-rod grade billet for February shipment to a Turkey-based re-roller...

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