For buyers & sellers: Act on China’s zero-tariff shift, Iran’s extended export ban, and surging freight costs with week-on-week data. Download Report

For Procurement Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

Whether China’s newly effective zero-tariff policy for 53 African countries actually reduces your total landed cost once it interacts with Nigeria’s 35% FPM rate, Egypt’s safeguard duties, or South Africa’s anti-dumping barriers—and how to verify this with your customs authority before placing the next order.
How to lock in billet and HRC supply now when Iran has explicitly warned its export ban on 66 tariff codes will extend beyond May 30 if the state of emergency continues, and Gulf buyers are already competing aggressively for Chinese and Indian alternatives.
Whether the Baltic Dry Index surging to multi-year highs with a single-day freight cost jump changes your procurement timing—and when to switch from CFR to FOB contracts to shift freight risk back to the seller before your landed cost moves another five to ten dollars per ton.

For Sales Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

How to price your CFR African quotes now that China’s 100% zero-tariff policy for Africa is operational, creating a structural cost advantage that Indian, Turkish, and CIS competitors cannot match—and whether to pass the saving through transparently or capture it as margin.
Whether Vietnam’s Hoa Phat raising HRC by a significant margin confirms the Asian price floor, and exactly when to raise your own export offers to Africa before regional competitors move first.
How to redirect your structural steel volumes after South Africa’s domestic mills publicly declared existing anti-dumping duties insufficient, signaling that further trade actions on flat and long products are likely—and which African infrastructure markets offer faster growth and fewer barriers.

The core value of this report, in one sentence:
China just eliminated tariffs on all steel products to 53 African nations while Iran’s steel stays locked out of the market and freight costs spike—this combination has reshaped who can deliver steel to Africa, at what total landed cost, and how fast.

This weekly report includes a detailed week-on-week comparison of price changes, policy shifts, currency movements, port congestion updates, and mill maintenance impacts, so you can quantify the magnitude of weekly moves and spot trend inflection points before they become obvious.

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