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July 2019 | Steel Raw Materials


Ukraine’s DMZ appears to be out of the MPI market this year: Iron Metallics Market Analysis


There were regular imports of MPI from Ukraine into Russia during the period from November 2017 until May 2018; exports of MPI from Russia to Hong Kong were registered with one-to-two-month lag.

We detailed in the April 17 edition of this tracker, that exporters from the CIS region were likely using Hong Kong as a proxy for merchant pig iron (MPI) sales to other Asia nations (excl. China) last year. Shipments to Hong Kong, surfacing in Russia’s export statistics, were likely being subsequently registered as imports from Russia in other nations, such as Taiwan or Thailand. In addition, some of Russia’s MPI exports likely originated from...

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