📄 2026.6.10Free Sample: South Asia (India) Steel Weekly Report

Report Period: 3 – 10 June 2026

📌 Core Insight Preview (Week of 10 June 2026)

The Indian steel market has split into two distinct realities. Long products plunged to four-month lows as mills slashed rebar prices and the late-May semi-finished recovery reversed. Flat products held firm, supported by the widest domestic-to-import spread in recent history and solid manufacturing demand. Western ports reached crisis-level congestion, with thousands of containers stranded and shipping lines blanking sailings. A new anti-dumping probe on stainless steel from FTA partners, combined with approaching BIS deadlines, is closing import windows. And Chinese export prices fell at the fastest pace in months.

Preview of This Week’s Top Developments:

• Market Divergence Widens Dramatically: The longs index fell 1.2% to four-month lows, while the flats index rose 0.3%. Primary mills cut rebar list prices aggressively, and inventories swelled. The full report analyses whether this divergence will persist and when the long-product bottom might form.
• Billet Recovery Fully Reversed: After two weeks of gains, the billet index collapsed to a four-month low. Sponge iron plunged 6% in a single week. The report explains what needs to happen for semi-finished prices to stabilise.
• Ports at Breaking Point: Western ports are at 85%+ yard density, delays extend to three days, shipping lines are blanking sailings through September, and 40,000–50,000 containers are stranded at sea. The report quantifies the logistics buffer you need to build into your supply chain.
• New Anti-Dumping Probe on Stainless Steel: The DGTR launched an investigation into cold-rolled flat stainless steel from China, Indonesia, and Vietnam — the very FTA partners driving the import surge. Combined with the 30 September BIS exemption deadline, the stainless import window is narrowing fast.
• UK and EU Slash Steel Import Quotas: From July, the UK will cut tariff-free quotas by 60% with a near-doubled penalty duty. The EU has cut India’s quota by 47%. Indian steel exports worth nearly a billion dollars are at risk.
• Chinese HRC Export Prices Tumble: A $23–35/t weekly drop — the largest in months — is eroding the competitive umbrella that has supported Indian flat steel prices.

📊 Price Snapshot (Directional Indicators)

Full price tables for all tracked products — including import parity calculations, scrap benchmarks, LME nickel and copper, and raw material costs — are available in the complete report.

💡 Actionable Intelligence Preview (Partial)

For Procurement Managers:
The full report gives you separate, segment-specific buy, wait, and hedge signals. It tells you why securing HRC and CRC now is prudent, why deferring rebar and billet purchases by 1–2 weeks is the right call, and how much logistics buffer to add to your supply chain as ports reach crisis levels. It also maps alternative non-duty stainless steel suppliers ahead of the BIS deadline and the new AD probe.

For Export Sales Managers:
We quantify the premium that Middle Eastern buyers are willing to pay for reliable supply amid the Hormuz disruption, identify the specific destinations where Indian pipe and tube exports can command the highest margins, and explain how to reposition volumes away from the UK and EU as quotas are slashed. The report also details the urgent stainless steel export window before September.

🔍 Why Download the Full Report?

This free sample only scratches the surface. The complete 8-page weekly briefing — including a dedicated Week-on-Week Deep Dive comparing this week’s data against last week — provides the granular data and dual-perspective action advice required to execute with confidence in a market that has split into two distinct regimes.

Full Report Includes:

• Price & Cost Analysis: Domestic spot prices for all major markets, China FOB benchmarks, LME base metals, global scrap prices, and raw material costs — all with WoW comparisons.
• Import Parity Calculations: Landed cost estimates vs. domestic prices under the 11.5% safeguard duty, updated for the latest rupee, freight, and war risk premium moves.
• Market Structure & Anti-Dumping Landscape: Detailed product-by-product breakdown of all active AD and CVD investigations, dumping causes, alternative non-duty supply sources with specific mill names, and end-use specifications.
• Policy & Trade Risk Tracker: The new stainless steel AD probe, DGFT SEZ exemption expansion, UK and EU quota cuts, BIS exemption deadlines, and the approaching CBAM Q2 price publication.
• Supply Chain Radar: Real-time port congestion status at all major Indian ports, BDI and freight cost trends, Iran conflict scenario analysis, and the potential impact of a Hormuz diplomatic breakthrough.
• Dual-Perspective Actionable Advice: Separate, specific, and quantified recommendations for Procurement Managers and Export Sales Managers — covering flats, longs, stainless, scrap, and alloy procurement and sales strategies.

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