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26 January 2012
Many end-users prefer annual contracts, so can suppliers were looking to extend their up-stream contracts from 6 months to 12 months.
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23 December 2011
Buyers cannot have been surprised that the tin mills do not want this; there is even some justice as well as self-interest in the reasons they give for retaining the shorter term: the recent volatility of raw materials and steel prices.
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30 November 2011
The long drawn out Eurozone crisis has aggravated the effect of seasonal weakness, oversupply and falling substrate prices for tinplate mills in Europe.
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28 October 2011
Import deals remain few and far between even as offer prices dip.
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28 September 2011
Prices continued their slide in Asian spot markets, while local EU prices (in dollar terms) fell on currency weakness.
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30 August 2011
ArcelorMittal are determined not to back down on its increases in quarterly and second-half prices.
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15 July 2011
EU industry predominantly remains on annual or six-month contracts to the big canners.
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17 June 2011
Japanese mills secure a ¥20,000/tonne ($250/tonne) increase in their annual domestic contract sales to canmakers.
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17 May 2011
China's Baosteel to introduce its third price increase in June.
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21 April 2011
Tinplate mills have been able to pass through the increase in costs in the second quarter.
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18 March 2011
Spot market price variations in January and March have meant that integrated tinplate mills in Japan and Europe will have to pay 47% more.