Stainless Espresso: China regulates and consolidates domestic steel market
August 2, 2021 – Difficult economic data and new regulations by the Chinese government sent Asian stock markets temporarily into a tailspin today. Western commodity exchanges unimpressed by Chinese data. Tight supply situation for aluminium continues to drive...
Stainless Espresso: Taiwanese stainless steel becomes drastically more expensive
Taiwanese stainless steel producers are raising prices, some dramatically, for August 2021. And the South American steel market remains stunned after the end of Chinese export rebates on various steel products. Taiwanese stainless steel producers drastically increase...
Stainless Espresso: China eliminates export rebates and makes global stainless steel production more expensive
July 30, 2021 – As we previously reported, the Chinese government has implemented its intention and imposed new export taxes and ended export rebates. Particularly affected are ferrochrome exports and 23 steel products, where export rebates have been completely...
Stainless Espresso: Steel and stainless steel prices continue to rise
July 29, 2021 – Chinese steel and stainless steel prices rose again today, even if analysts had already again sung farewells to the Chinese market. Aluminum, nickel and other important values further in the plus. India and Brazil increasingly focus on the...
Stainless Espresso: Criticism of EU Safeguard extension continues unabated
July 28, 2021: Criticism of the European Commission’s three-year extension of the EU Safeguard measures continues unabated. The EU economy is being severely damaged by supply bottlenecks; in Germany alone the estimated losses amount to more than 25 billion...
Stainless Espresso: Rising ferrochrome prices pull up EU alloy surcharges significantly
Rising ferrochrome prices are pulling up domestic stainless steel producers’ August 2021 alloy surcharges significantly in the EU. By up to 10%. Nickel ore prices close to all-time high. Demand for 300 series stainless steel in 2021 up more than 35%...
Stainless Espresso: Chinese steel export taxes from 11 to 20%?
As market sources tell us, there is hot speculation in China about coming steel export taxes. There is talk of export taxes on HRC and CRC products in the range of 11 to 20%. Nickel and stainless steel prices continue to rise significantly. Stainless steel spot prices...
Stainless Espresso: Chinese power cuts have visible impact on stainless steel prices
Tight power supplies in China are having an increasingly visible impact on stainless steel price trends, as evidenced today, July 23, 2021, by a look at prices that have once again risen sharply. Nickel is again topping $19,000 per ton on the LME. And aluminum Midwest...