Global Steel Export Pricing

Forecast to 2015

In Core Report UUUU, WSD offers its analysis of world steel export price developments in the past 20 years and a special methodology for forecasting them in the decade ahead.  Annual forecasts are presented for these products: steel scrap (obsolete grade and automotive bundles), iron ore (fines and pellets), directly reduced iron, pig iron, billet, slab, hot-rolled band, cold-rolled coil, galvanized coil, cut plate, rebar and wire rod.

The prices for each product are forecast to 2015 under five conditions: boom times, good times, average times, bad times and shakeout times.  The prices are forecast, F.O.B. the port of export where applicable for Tier I mills.  Average steel prices, based on our year-by-year forecast and weighted-over-the-cycle figures, are compared to average prices in the past 5 years.

Some of the questions that are answered include the following:

• How will the price of each product in the next decade compare to that in the past?
• When will the raw material shortages end?
• What is the outlook for financial futures transactions?
• What is the near-term steel pricing outlook?

Core Report UUUU is provided to WSD’s subscribers as part of their regular $10,500 annual service.  The price for non-subscribers is $2,000.