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Short Range Outlook : June 2025
Competition becomes predatory in oversupplied global long steel market The global long steel products market is oversupplied and overcrowded. The situation has worsened and is now structural. The competition in the global market is predatory. Margins are dead. The only strategy is cashflow and turnover. Whoever can ship first, wins. Whoever negotiates for $5/mt more, [...]
US steel import tariffs increase to 50 percent
Yesterday, June 3, US President Donald Trump signed an order to increase tariffs from 25 percent to 50 percent on steel and aluminum imports into the US, according to a statement published by White House. The higher tariff will be effective as of June 4, 2025. Trump stated that the measures are intended to secure [...]