Successful trading in recent weeks spurred some CIS steel slab producers to increase their offer prices for foreign customers in late April.
Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel slab, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, was $325-340 per tonne on Monday April 27, widening upward by $10 per tonne.Ukraine-origin slab was available in Italy and Turkey within the range of $360-365 per tonne cfr, which would be equivalent to $340-350 per tonne fob...