Due to the increases of scrap prices, billet prices from UAE have gone up recently, but mills indicate the prices will be very unlikely to go further up because of the reduction on rebar manufacturing over high cost of billet, according to www.yieh.com .
Billet offers for January stood between US$460-470/ton. Export prices from Russia Metalloinvest and Ukraine Industrial Union of Donbass vary between US$410-420/ton.
In India, billet prices had increased by around US$43/ton. Tightness of supply has been the main determinant of price increases.