{"id":20336,"date":"2026-10-27T06:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=20336"},"modified":"2026-10-27T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:45:17","slug":"egypt-government-establishes-billet-committee-and-retains-safeguards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/egypt-government-establishes-billet-committee-and-retains-safeguards\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt | Government establishes billet committee and retains safeguards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cosmos-eng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/egyptian-steel-first-package-rebar-production-danielle-siac.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7769551133734383;width:351px;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\">Egypt will establish a committee to monitor billet availability, prices and supply-chain continuity.<br>The decision followed disputes between integrated producers and rerollers over shortages and import costs.<br>Officials maintained the existing safeguard framework, with the billet import duty currently at 12%.<br>Imported billet rose to $545\u2013555 per tonne CFR on October 22, from $530\u2013545 previously.<br>Ten bids were submitted for eight production licences covering 2.8 million tonnes of annual billet capacity.<\/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: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":"<p>Egypt will establish a committee to monitor billet availability, prices and supply-chain continuity.The decision followed disputes between integrated producers and<\/p>\n","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-20336","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":"Egypt will establish a committee to monitor billet availability, prices and supply-chain continuity.The decision followed disputes between integrated producers and","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336","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=20336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20337,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20336\/revisions\/20337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}