For buyers & sellers: Navigate the post-vote HRC paradox, UK stainless quota cliff, Italy rebar surge & Q3 contract timing. Download Report.

Procurement Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

Whether to lock in Q3 HRC volumes now at moderately higher forward prices, or hold out — when the EU Parliament vote has removed policy uncertainty but spot prices are still drifting lower.
How to avoid a severe supply crunch in UK stainless bars, where the new quota covers only a fraction of last year’s imports and a major domestic mill is shutting down for maintenance just as the quota cliff hits.
How to plan delivery routes and manage rising landed costs when container freight rates are accelerating sharply and the busiest European port is structurally congested.

Sales Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

How to use the historic EU Parliament vote to accelerate Q3 contract negotiations, even while buyers are convinced a price ceiling has been reached.
Where the most urgent supply gaps have opened — and why the Italian long products market is surging at a pace unmatched by flat steel.
How to price competitively for European buyers when the gap between forward offers and spot is narrowing, and buyer resistance is organized.

The Core Value of This Report in One Sentence:
The EU Parliament voted overwhelmingly to slash steel import quotas from July 1, but HRC spot prices are still drifting lower while rebar is surging — this means procurement managers must decide now whether to lock in Q3 volumes before the forward-spot gap closes, and sales managers must target the specific product-and-country supply gaps where the pricing power has already shifted.

This weekly report includes data and analysis comparing this week’s figures to the previous week’s report, so you can see exactly how prices, policies, and risks have moved in the last seven days.

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