{"id":19969,"date":"2026-09-02T08:53:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=19969"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:53:31","slug":"us-and-northern-european-hrc-markets-tighten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/us-and-northern-european-hrc-markets-tighten\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Northern European | HRC Markets Tighten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/19\/04\/1600x900\/skynews-us-europe-eu-flag-america_4640424.jpg?20190415105109\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:708px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">The US Midwest HRC index reached a four-year high of <strong>$1,220 per short ton<\/strong>, supported by low inventories, limited spot availability and mill outages. Lead times extended to around eight weeks, encouraging buyers to reconsider imported material. Northern European HRC also increased to <strong>\u20ac748.33 per tonne<\/strong>, up \u20ac37.08 month on month, amid expensive imports and scheduled maintenance at Thyssenkrupp\u2019s Duisburg blast furnace. Italy remained weaker, with its HRC index falling to \u20ac712.50 per tonne.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18968\" style=\"width:93px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-400x133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-430x143.jpg 430w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-150x50.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Midwest HRC index reached a four-year high of $1,220 per short ton, supported by low inventories, limited spot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iron"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Author","author_link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/author\/ghazizadeh\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/iron\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Ferrious<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The US Midwest HRC index reached a four-year high of $1,220 per short ton, supported by low inventories, limited spot","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19970,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions\/19970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}