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Short Range Outlook: January 2013
New Year brings some positive signs for longs market, at least for short term Business slowed down due to the holiday period in many long steel markets worldwide, but the balance of supply and demand has been maintained as many mills opted for long holiday breaks. The first week of the year showed some signs [...]
Qatar issues guidelines for rebar imports
Qatar’s Ministry of Environment has announced guidelines regarding reinforcing bar imports to improve the quality of building and construction materials in the country. Accordingly, Qatar has banned imports of reinforcing bars below grade 500, and made mandatory a labaratory test report to import the construction steels. The Ministry announced to accept only those issued by the ISO [...]
