The prices were published at 5:47pm London time, instead of the scheduled time before 4 pm. The following prices were published late: MB-IRO-0002 Pig iron export, fob main port Black Sea, CIS, $/tonneMB-IRO-0014 Pig iron import, cfr Italy, $/tonneMB-FE-0004 Hot-briquetted iron, cfr Italian ports, $/tonne These prices are a part of the Fastmarkets Steel Raw Materials Physical Prices […]

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-STE-0149 steel scrap heavy scrap domestic, delivered mill China, which was published incorrectly on Friday March 7.

US President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday March 4 contained key strategic policy objectives that will have a direct impact on global metals markets. Fastmarkets takes a high-level view of the key strategies below: “They tariff us…we will tariff them.” The Trump administration will introduce reciprocal tariffs on all countries that levy duties […]

Tariffs on steel and aluminum will raise US car prices, increase production costs, and squeeze profit margins. Smaller car companies may struggle to compete, while retaliatory actions could disrupt the global auto market, reshaping manufacturing and trade industry-wide.

US President Donald Trump has reinstated the full 25% steel tariffs under Section 232. This decisive move aims to curb surging imports and bolster US manufacturing. With exemptions removed and impacts stretching from producers to downstream manufacturers, the global steel industry braces for widespread effects.

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the load port of its hard coking coal and pulverized coal injection (PCI) spot prices, fob DBCT, to fob eastern Australian ports, from the current basis of Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal, Australia.

U.S. tariffs on Mexico shape global trade dynamics, impacting products and prices on both sides of the border.

Fastmarkets is amending its holiday pricing schedule for 15 China ferrous prices in 2025.

Major Asian steelmakers have been striving to develop decarbonization technologies for the current blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) steelmaking, given the global green steel production drive and large number of existing blast furnaces built in recent years.

Trump’s first 100 days, analyzing his policies, impacts, including tariffs, and the effects on global trade