[Ferro-alloys.com] According to Thailand's Ministry of Commerce said, the country planned to impose provisional anti-dumping duty on China's low-carbon wire rod, the provisional anti-dumping duties were 17.16%-34.44%. It will effect on September 12 this year w...

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to Brazil’s official gazette on September 14, the Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) opened its investigation of antidumping against seamless unalloyed carbon steel tubes from China.

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to customs data released in August, Taiwan’s hot-rolled coil exports totaled 358,474 tons in August. Among them, Taiwan exported 76,037 tons of hot rolled coils to Vietnam in August, Vietnam became Taiwan’s main hot rolled coils ...

[Ferro-alloys.com] Italy’s seamless pipe prices remained unchanged, after the summer holidays. Those for Machinery manufacturing, construction and commercial vehicles for key users seamless tube industry demand remained weak.

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to Finland's Outokumpu said that the company were using stainless steel slab instead of steel ingot which would significant savings in cost and materials during heavy forging process.

[Ferro-alloys.com] It is reported that Turkey producers, Isdemir announced to idle its steel wire plant at Iskenderun for a month for maintenance plans.

According to statistics released by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE), the country’s steel export values totaled US$19.8 billion in the first seven months, decreasing by 3.6% year on year.

According to the data from Brazil’s trade ministry, Brazil’s iron ore exports to China dropped by 2.2% in July to 15.9 million tons compared to the same month a year ago.