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Iran : Domestic Billet Prices Slide Down Post New Government Measures

Iran : Domestic Billet Prices Slide Down Post New Government Measures
Mining News Pro - Recently the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade suspended the rule of keeping an upper limit of steel price in Iranian Mercantile Exchange i.e. big steelmakers were required to sell their products to authorized buyers in IME with a fixed price of FOB CIS x IRR 42,000.
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According to Mining News Pro - Recently the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade suspended the rule of keeping an upper limit of steel price in Iranian Mercantile Exchange i.e. big steelmakers were required to sell their products to authorized buyers in IME with a fixed price of FOB CIS x IRR 42,000.

According to the letter issued by Deputy Industries Minister Jafar Sarqeini, the prices of steel products on IME will be equivalent to the average rate of discovery of goods in the last four offers on the market, thus removing the ceiling on commodity trading for steel products.

The discovery of new prices is in accordance with the proposal made by four major steel companies of Khorasan, Khouzestan, Mobarakeh and Esfahan. Owing to this rule the billet price in spot market started to decrease rapidly.

According to Planner “After the new rule at IME, the market is sliding downward, since the prices at IME are being stabilized and speculative demand has been eliminated.”

As per SteelMint assessment, market opened on 8th Sep’18 with a billet price of IRR 39,920/KG (USD 950/MT) and started decreasing from the next day by reaching IRR 37,910/KG (USD 903/MT) on 10th Sep’18. During the mid of week billet prices were noted to be around IRR 38,290/KG (USD 912/MT). Towards the weekend billet prices were hovering at around IRR 37,900/KG (USD 902/MT).

It is to be noted that Iranian steel market is not active in current week owing to Moharram.

Commodities

8/9/2018

9/9/2018

10/9/2018

11/9/2018

12/9/2018

13/9/2018

Scrap

26,760

27,020

27,290

27,290

27,290

27,630

Billet

39,920

38,310

37,910

38,290

37,910

37,900

Rebar

47,570

46,520

46,190

46,190

46,280

45,750

Difference between Scrap-Billet

13,160

11,290

10,620

11,000

10,620

10,270

Difference between Billet-Rebar

7,650

8,210

8,280

7,900

8,370

7,850

Quantity in IRR/KG
Source: Planner

Khouzestan Steel, South Kaveh Steel and Khorasan Steel Offered Billet/Bloom at IME

Khouzestan Steel, one of the giant billet producer sold 30,000 MT bloom at IME for IRR 34,302/KG (USD 817/MT) against the demand of 41,000 MT on 15 Sep’18

South Kaveh Steel sold 12,000 MT bloom at IME for IRR 35,755/KG (USD 851/MT) against the initial demand of 33,000 MT.

Khorasan Steel also sold 5000 MT bloom at IME for IRR 33,763/MT (USD 804/MT) against the demand of 9000 MT.

 

 


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