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Steel: EU and US continue negotiations on an agreement
The EU and US will continue to negotiate the Global Agreement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminium (GASSA) until the year-end deadline, after failing to reach an agreement in time for Friday's EU-US summit in Washington. The summit had been highly anticipated to produce...
Zinc and lead: the outlook for 2023 and 2024
The International Lead and Zinc Study Group held its sixty-eighth session in Lisbon on 5-6 October 2023, with the Study Group's Statistical and Forecasting Committee meeting to review current global lead and zinc supply and demand levels and the outlook for 2024. On...
HRC steel: European market slows down
European buyers of hot-rolled coils (HRC) were mostly unconvinced by the price increases proposed by mills in the region, citing insufficient demand in a market overburdened with supply. At the beginning of the week, several European mills announced small price...
Rare earths: key figures in Vietnamese industry arrested
Vietnamese police arrested six people accused of violating mining regulations, including the president of a company at the centre of efforts to develop Vietnam's rare earth industry, seizing 13,715 tonnes of rare earth minerals. Among those arrested was Luu Anh Tuan,...