Buying muted in Iran’s export billet, slab market as customers wait for clearer trend

摘要

Purchasing activity in the Iranian export semi-finished steel marketwas delayed in the week ended Wednesday January 10 becausecustomers wanted to wait and see the market trend become clearerafter the year-end holidays.Metal Bulletin’s newly launched weekly assessment of theIranian export billet price was $510-520 per tonne fob on January 10.Esfahan Steel, the country’s sole blast oxygen furnace-basedsteelmaker, opened a tender at the end of last week, targeting $520per tonne fob.