EUROPE HRC: Market activity slows; buyers question Europe HRC prices, imports and price trend

May 29, 2021 / www.metalbulletin.com / Article Link

Activity in the European hot-rolled coil market has been slow this week while buyers have preferred to hold back from new deals and proved reluctant to accept any further price increases.

Buyers - already struggling to open credit lines due to the high prices of flat steel - chose to pause their purchases while monitoring China's coil market.
Prices for coil in China have been decreasing over the past couple of weeks, which European sources believed indicates the end of the rapid domestic prices rise in the EU.

Fastmarkets' steel hot-rolled coil index, export, fob main port China was $907.60 per tonne on Friday May 28, down by $44.68...

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