Asian Costs and Margin Databoard

The interactive databoard for costs and margins in Asian steel product markets consists of average monthly steel product costs, prices and margins from 2024 by China and India. All the information and calculations in the study allow readers to assess the current steel market situation in the region and to build a short-term production, cost and price forecast. All financial data are expressed in a common currency - US dollars.

The cost and margin data cover steel products produced by BOFs, EAFs (from scrap) and re-rollers for domestic and export markets. The interactive databoard consists of cost and margin data for the following steel products:

The cost structure items are the following: iron ore/pig iron, coking coal, scrap, ferroalloys, fuel and energy, electrodes, and fixed costs.

The following information is used for cost and margin calculations:

• monthly average prices for raw material (SteelOrbis);
• monthly average prices for finished products (SteelOrbis);
• production volumes and fixed costs (financial/annual reports of public companies, SteelOrbis calculations);
• yield rates of raw material (SteelOrbis calculations, subsidiary reports of public companies);
• transportation and freight costs (public reports of transportation companies, SteelOrbis calculations, Asian producers’ data);
• volumes of raw material purchases by type and country (Chinese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry; Japanese Ministry of Finance; ISSB; UN Comtrade Database; GTT; Trademap).