Shagang holds list prices for steel longs for late-October sales

Shagang Group (Shagang), China's leading privately-owned steel firm and the country's largest electric-arc-furnace steelmaker, has decided to maintain its long-product list prices for sales over October 21-31 unchanged from the middle ten days of the month, according to the company's latest announcement on October 21.

The Zhangjiagang-based steel group updates its list prices for long steel products such as rebars three times a month to better reflect market dynamics, as reported. With its latest pricing policy, Shagang continues to keep its price for HRB400 16-20mm rebar at Yuan 3,450/tonne ($517/t), its price for HPB300 6-10mm