Executive Summary

摘要

Metal Expert forecasts a decrease in prices for flats in the CIS domestic and exportmarkets in 2016. The downtrend will be caused by: – decreasing production costs due to reduced prices for iron ore (down 25?30%) andsteel scrap (down 20%); –decreasing consumption of flats in the CIS states. Devaluation of national currencies,cheap oil, shrinking investment opportunities and decreasing solvency of populationare the key factors affecting demand in all industries.The downward dynamics will bedriven by machine-building and construction that suffer from sluggish investment activity.The rates of consumption downfall will be somewhat slowed down by deliveriesof strip to pipe plants that produce large-diameter pipes for important pipeline projects;