For procurement & sales managers: Navigate Philippine peso crisis, BDI freight surge, and Vietnam duty impacts with week-on-week data and trading signals. Download Report.

This weekly intelligence briefing compares the latest seven-day trading window against the prior week, giving you more than a snapshot — it shows you the direction and speed of market change. If you source or sell billet, slab, HRC, CRC or stainless steel into Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia or Malaysia, this report isolates the three or four decisions that will either protect your margin this quarter or erode it.

For Procurement Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

Why the Philippine billet market has suddenly become unreadable, with benchmark 3SP assessments and actual 5SP transactions diverging by over fifty dollars per tonne, and which price you should actually use for negotiations.
How the Baltic Dry Index surge to a five-month high will mechanically add freight costs to your CFR quotes within two weeks, and which products you should book immediately before the pass-through lands.
Whether Hoa Phat’s aggressive June HRC price increase makes Indian or Japanese material a better alternative for Vietnamese buyers now that the anti-circumvention duty has closed the door on Chinese wide-width supply.

For Sales Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

Which Southeast Asian billet buyer is being crushed by a historic currency collapse and can no longer afford your offers, versus which market still has healthy demand and should receive your allocation priority.
How to price non-Chinese HRC into Vietnam during the 120-day duty window, with a clear landed-cost comparison that shows where your premium can stick and where it will be rejected.
Whether to pause, proceed cautiously or quote aggressively on cold-rolled stainless steel to Malaysia, given the new anti-dumping evasion bill tabled on 30 April and the ongoing CRSS investigation.

Every page of this report is built on a rigorous week-on-week comparison framework: you see last week’s price, this week’s price, the driver that moved it, and a next-week forecast with concrete upside and downside scenarios. No vague commentary — only actionable direction.

The Core Value Proposition of This Report:
The Philippine peso has crashed to an all-time low, the BDI has surged over forty percent from its March trough, and Vietnam’s anti-circumvention duty has handed domestic mills the pricing power to raise HRC by fifty dollars per tonne — this report’s week-on-week analysis shows exactly where these shocks are hitting, who is winning, and who is being forced out of the market.

*This report includes full week-on-week data comparison tables and a dedicated deep-dive section analysing price, policy, logistics and sentiment shifts between Week 17 and Week 18.*

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