The plate delivered assessment rose by $8.25/st to $1,676.50/st.

Private construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.43tn, 0.6pc below the July estimate of $1.44tn.

Peru’s mining exports fell in the first eight months, the first accumulated year-on-year drop in 2022.

SAO PAULO - Brazilian conglomerate Cosan said on Friday it had acquired a 4.9% stake in Vale and intends to increase its bet in the mining company.

It was a 9.2% decrease from the 2,485,000 permit tons recorded in August and a 10.1% decrease from the August final imports total of 2,510,000.

Exports to the three major destinations — South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan, China.

The report highlights that, in 2021, shipments from domestic steel mills measured 94.7 million net tons (NT), up 16.9 percent from the previous year.

In the week ending on October 1, 2022, domestic raw steel production was 1,700,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 77.1 percent.