{"id":20182,"date":"2026-09-18T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=20182"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:05:56","slug":"united-states-hot-rolled-coil-midwest-hrc-reaches-highest-price-since-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/united-states-hot-rolled-coil-midwest-hrc-reaches-highest-price-since-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"United States | Hot-Rolled Coil: Midwest HRC Reaches Highest Price Since May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tse1.mm.bing.net\/th\/id\/OIP.YrK2k_vozEmYjhvsmXj5EQHaFj?r=0&amp;rs=1&amp;pid=ImgDetMain&amp;o=7&amp;rm=3\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:317px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1\" style=\"color:#001357\"><strong>The US Midwest HRC index increased to $62.13 per hundredweight, equivalent to $1,242.60 per short ton. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2\" style=\"color:#001357\"><strong>The index rose by 2.36% week on week and reached its highest level in more than four years. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3\" style=\"color:#001357\"><strong>Buyers reported extremely limited spot availability, with some unable to obtain quotations from domestic mills. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4\" style=\"color:#001357\"><strong>Stronger-than-expected demand and scheduled mill maintenance outages further tightened market supply. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5\" style=\"color:#001357\"><strong>Market participants expect prices to remain supported by tight inventories, energy costs and Section 232 tariffs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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:123px;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":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iron","category-general"],"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> <a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/general\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182","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=20182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20183,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions\/20183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}