On Tuesday, December 18, the Ministry of Industry of China announced that it would exclude 11 metallurgical firms from the list of qualified enterprises, effectively prohibiting them to work, and ordered another 17 companies to eliminate environmental violations..

It is expected that in the fourth quarter of 2018, China's automobile industry will consume about 13.09 million tons rolled products, which is 0.9% more than the previous one..

The US Department of Commerce will retain the anti-dumping duties imposed on the supply of steel construction fittings from Ukraine, Belarus, Indonesia, Latvia, Moldova, Poland and China..

Last week, factories lowered purchase prices against the backdrop of unfavorable market conditions for finished rolled products and fairly high stockpiles..

In November 2018, scrap collecting organizations harvested 313 thousand tons of scrap metal, of which 309 thousand tons were supplied to domestic metallurgical enterprises..