Jul 31, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
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...
Jul 30, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
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...
Jul 29, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
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...
Jul 28, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
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...
Jul 27, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
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%...
Jul 26, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
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...
Jul 23, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
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...
Jul 22, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
Global demand will continue to keep container rates up. At least until the Chinese Lunar New Year in 2022. Freight rates from India and Pakistan are also rising significantly due to a lack of containers and tight shipping schedules. In China, ferromolybdenum prices...
Jul 21, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
Stainless steel buyers report finding fewer and fewer suitable offers for their sales markets. The world takes a critical look at the European “Fit for 55” and the Carbon Border Tax CBAM. EU steelmakers are unhappy with their own lobbying. And iron ores...
Jul 20, 2021 | Stainless Espresso
After brief Covid19 concerns, base metals had executed a slight downward correction on a broad front yesterday, Monday, July 19, 2021. Today, the prices of nickel, aluminum, copper and others are already rising again. In the United States, nickel premiums are in short...
