TURKEY STEEL BILLET: Prices driven down by coronavirus, strong fall in scrap values

March 27, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com / Article Link

The Turkish markets for steel billet have crashed over the past week, following the sharp decline in imported scrap prices amid the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, sources said on Thursday March 26.

Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet import, cfr main port Turkey, was $357-360 per tonne on Thursday, down from the $390-400 per tonne of last week.

After the imported scrap prices crashed, offers from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) went down to $357-365 per...

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