For steel buyers & sellers: Navigate Iran supply cliff, record-low peso, and China export curbs with week-on-week data. 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 HRC, billet, slab, or stainless steel into Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia or Malaysia, this report isolates the decisions that will either protect your margin this quarter or erode it.

For Procurement Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

Whether to defer bulk HRC procurement ahead of the Iran export ban decision on May 30, and how to position slab and billet books for the binary supply risk that could either extend the structural deficit or trigger a sharp correction across Southeast Asian semi‑finished prices.
How long the Philippine billet stalemate can persist when Chinese domestic billet costs are falling and freight rates are retreating, and at what point the softening cost structure will force sellers to bridge the bid‑offer spread that has frozen the market for weeks.
How Vietnam’s accelerating trade remedy actions—new sunset reviews for welding materials and prestressed steel strand—are reshaping the competitive landscape for imported flat and long steel products, and which origins are positioned to capture market share as Chinese material faces increasingly restricted access.

For Sales Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

Whether the post‑holiday HRC rally has definitively ended and how to adjust export offer levels to reflect falling domestic Chinese billet prices, RMB appreciation, and the temporary absence of Middle East buyers during the Eid al‑Adha holiday.
Which ASEAN markets are still commercially viable for HRC and slab exports now that the Indonesian rupiah has hit its weakest level since the 1998 Asian financial crisis and the Philippine peso has set a new record low, and how to hedge or redirect tonnage to avoid FX‑driven demand destruction.
How to price Indian and Indonesian HRC into Vietnam to capture the market share being vacated by Chinese wide‑width material, while factoring in the diversion effect of the India‑Oman Free Trade Agreement that takes effect on June 1.

The Core Value Proposition of This Report:
Iran’s export ban decision on May 30 is the most significant binary supply event for Southeast Asian steel since the conflict began—this report’s week‑on‑week analysis shows exactly how the outcome will reshape slab, billet, and HRC pricing across the region.

This report includes full week‑on‑week data comparison tables and a dedicated deep‑dive section analysing price, policy, currency, logistics, and sentiment shifts between Week 20 and Week 21.

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