china market all steel related products well sky high , some went limit up, for last few days trading session on strong demand,expecting great future advances.
second quarter steel price in world market suffered a set back , but as from 3rd quarter world steel price recover strongly, hopefully , full year can bring good healthy result.
China Hikes Steel Prices By Leia Toovey -August 28, 2017 - 16:36 UTC
China’s largest steelmaker, China Steel Corp., will increase the prices of steel products for delivery in the fourth quarter by an average of 5.6% due to higher raw material costs.
Earlier in the month, Japan increased its steel product prices, also due to higher input costs. But, sending a bit of a mixed message, last week Nippon Steel announced that it had reduced steel prices to Toyota Motor Corp.
China Steel Corp. will raise the prices for all products by an average of $37.8 per ton. Prior to the increase, the steelmaker had lowered prices by an average of 5.28% for third quarter shipments in response to fluctuations in major steel markets.
Global steel prices have been rallying due to better demand expectations as well as Beijing’s steel capacity cutbacks. While steelmakers have been benefiting from these higher prices, higher costs for steel input ingredients have impacted their margins.
According to China Steel’s vice president Lee Shin-min, “Customer inventory has remained low in China and restocking demand is likely to continue to stimulate steel prices in the fourth quarter.”
Previously, it was anticipated that China’s demand for steel would fall later this year as the country’s stimulus-related infrastructure spending programs came to a close. However; it seems as if the opposite case has unfolded. China’s demand for steel remains strong, as the country’s economy has recovered. Even without stimulus related infrastructure programs, it appears that the country will keep building.
On top of all of this, of course, is the country’s steel capacity cuts and the expectation that output will be reduced even more, later in the year, to combat pollution during the winter when thermal coal use clogs the country’s skies with smoke. These factors will all support steel prices.
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