Order activity and inquiries for US import HDG and Galvalume markets have remained steady in the past two weeks, with traders noting that still-rising US domestic prices continue to spur interest in booking offshore. Traders have also said that planned maintenance outages at three US sheet mills (Cleveland Cliffs has idled it’s No. 7 blast furnace at Indiana Harbor East through Oct. 15, US Steel’s Gary Works has a 38-day planned blast furnace outage that’s set to start in late September, and Nucor’s 25-28 day outage at its Gallatin, Kentucky plant will start in November) which are happening between now and mid-November, are expected to keep supplies of domestic steel “tighter than buyers would like,” which is also helping bloster interest in booking imported material.
This week’s prices are listed in the chart below.
| 0.012” G30 HDG coil | $/cwt | $/mt | $/nt | Last week | Delivery |
| Turkey, Packistan, Egypt | Slightly below $100 cwt. | $2,205 | $2,000 | Slightly below $100 cwt. | DDP loaded truck in US Gulf ports |
| Vietnam | $91-$93 | $2,006-$2,050 | $1,820-$1,860 | $91-$93 | DDP loaded truck in US Gulf ports |
| Galvalume coil 019 Gr80/AZ55 | |||||
| Vietnam | $95+/- | $2,094+/- | $1,900+/- | $95+/- | DDP loaded truck in US Gulf ports |
| Mexico | $100+ | $2,205+ | $2,000+ | $100+ | FOB Houston |