A large gap between bids and offers for deep-sea steel scrap imported into South Korea has blocked any chance of deals for the material in the past week, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 19.
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South Korea
The pause in imports of deep-sea scrap to South Korea continued this week, with the last deal heard done to the country
in late October.
A deep-sea sale was done to Vietnam at $540 per tonne cfr for heavy melting scrap 1&2 (80:20) late last week, but sources said Korea would not be able to match these prices following the recent
drop in its bid prices for Japan-origin scrap.
A South Korean mill was heard to have bid at $515 per tonne cfr for Russian A3...