TURKEY STEEL BILLET: Domestic, export prices down on limited demand

Turkish steel billet prices in both the local and export markets have decreased over the past week on limited demand, market participants said on Thursday June 10.

Long steel prices in the country, on the other hand, increased slightly during the week because of higher materials costs.
Most market participants in Turkey expected billet prices to increase in the next few weeks as well, because of increasing scrap prices.

Turkish scrap import prices went up during the week. Fastmarkets calculated...

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