{"id":19971,"date":"2026-09-02T08:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=19971"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:57:41","slug":"chinese-steel-prices-weaken-despite-rising-coke-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/chinese-steel-prices-weaken-despite-rising-coke-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese | Steel Prices Weaken Despite Rising Coke Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/b6b6783b3697359df6caaee969ca59c2?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1997&amp;cropW=2666&amp;xPos=162&amp;yPos=0&amp;width=862&amp;height=647\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3323252180049399;width:408px;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\">Chinese HRC and rebar prices declined because of weak spot demand and falling futures, with purchases largely limited to immediate requirements. Eastern China rebar dropped by 20 yuan to <strong>3,100-3,130 yuan per tonne<\/strong>, while Tangshan billet fell by 10 yuan to 3,040 yuan. Coke producers proposed another increase of <strong>100-110 yuan per tonne<\/strong>, which would bring cumulative rises since late July to 350-385 yuan. Higher production costs are limiting the downside, but smaller mills may reduce output if finished-steel demand does not improve.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright 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:132px;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>Chinese HRC and rebar prices declined because of weak spot demand and falling futures, with purchases largely limited to immediate<\/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-19971","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":"Chinese HRC and rebar prices declined because of weak spot demand and falling futures, with purchases largely limited to immediate","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971","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=19971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19972,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971\/revisions\/19972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}