Below is the brief near-term outlook for five key steel products Mysteel shares on a weekly basis, drawing upon the results of related surveys and communication with Chinese market participants.

China's prices of major steel products, including rebar, square billet and hot-rolled coil (HRC), remained firm during the week of July 13-17, as market sentiment improved amid reduced steel output and steady cost support.

Chinese prices for imported iron ore increased slightly across both spot and futures markets during July 13-17, mainly as strikes at BHP's operations at Port Hedland raised some concerns about supply disruptions. During the same period, domestic metallurgical coke prices held largely stable in the s

Philippine medium-to-high grade ore prices remained low and stable. CIF Lianyungang offers for 1.3% grade stood at US $47/wmt, and 1.4% grade at US $57/wmt, with prices holding steady during the week. In the Indonesian domestic ore market, continued downward adjustments in the HMA reference price pu

The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) has initiated safeguard and anti-dumping (AD) investigations into imports of certain cold-rolled (CR) carbon-steel flat products from all origins and China respectively, according to two notices dated on July 10 and published b