Turkey and Russia have exhausted their permitted import quota allowances for certain long steel products within just days of renewal, Fastmarkets has observed from European Commission data.
The import market for long steel products in the European Union has remained strained because of safeguard measures. The fourth-quarter quota for steel imports into the EU came into effect on October 1 and will run until December 31."The Turkish quota is gone until April. There are some significant volumes that didn't fit into the fourth-quarter quota so buyers will...