Correction to steel billet import, cfr main port Turkey price on March 6

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-STE-0116 steel billet import, cfr main port Turkey price assessment, which was published incorrectly on Thursday March 6.

Fastmarkets’ weekly price assessment for steel billet import, cfr main port Turkey was published incorrectly as $450-490 per tonne on March 6. This has been corrected to $455-490 per tonne.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change.

This price is part of the Fastmarkets physical steel package.

For more information or to provide feedback on this correction notice or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to this price, please contact Cem Türken by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Cem Türken, re: Turkish steel billet import price.”

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To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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