For procurement & sales managers: Navigate Iran supply shock, HRC price jumps and duty shifts 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:

Whether to lock in Q2 slab and HRC volumes immediately, or risk waiting for a post‑holiday pullback now that Chinese mills have already locked in higher May domestic list prices and Iran’s formal export ban removes near‑term supply relief.
Exactly how to restructure your wide‑width HRC buying for Vietnam now that the 27.83% anti‑circumvention duty has fully reset the landed‑cost ranking between Chinese, Japanese and Korean origins — what looks expensive on a nominal CFR basis may be the cheapest all‑in option.
Where port congestion has collapsed and where it remains critical, so you can stop adding unnecessary buffer stock for Manila while still protecting against 13‑day delays at Jakarta.

For Sales Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

Which semi‑finished product Iranian buyers can no longer supply, and exactly how fast Chinese slab export premiums are widening, so you can prioritise the highest‑margin allocation and quote with confidence.
How to price non‑Chinese HRC into Vietnam during the 120‑day duty window, incorporating the freight surge that has already lifted the Baltic Dry Index to a 9‑month high, without leaving money on the table.
Whether to pause, proceed cautiously or quote aggressively on cold‑rolled stainless steel to Malaysia, given the new anti‑dumping investigation launched on 14 April and the imminent expiry of duties on Indonesian stainless.

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:
Iran’s formal export ban has locked in a structural billet and slab supply deficit through Q2 — this report’s week‑on‑week analysis quantifies how fast China HRC FOB is repricing, where Thailand is catching up, and which port improvements give buyers temporary leverage before the next cost push lands.

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 15 and Week 16.

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