Germany

摘要

Germany's reliance on strong export industries has meant that signs of a standstill in the US economy have generated more nervousness here than in other EU countries, and this has fed back to the steel sector. Steel stocks have been coming down, but there was still enough coil tonnage in the system to permit distributors to delay orders as long as they could see prices falling. With imports still on offer, the price range of HR coil remains wide, but even EU material was down to DM525/t (