Flat Angle, Channel Steel Price in Tokyo

Angle steel market price is flat at around 123,000 yen per tonne for product with 6 millimeters thick and 50 mm width at dealers’ sites around Tokyo. Channel steel price is 128,000 yen for product with 5 mm thick, 50 by 100 mm width. The buyers reject 125,000 yen offer by the dealers for angle under very slow building market. The price is likely to keep the level through major mid-August holiday to August 17. The dealers’ channel inventory is estimated to increase by around 5% in July from June when the makers increased the shipment for distributors to reduce order backlog while the dealers’ shipment was in line with June level. The dealers’ angle inventory was apparently flat in July as June level. The dealers’ shipment was slow as June due to slow building demand despite of the firm demand for construction and industrial machinery while the dealers’ arrivals from makers was flat as June. The dealers cannot get higher price under slow demand. Some dealers reduce the price to secure certain sales volume when the demand gets lower. The market price shows sign to decrease and could decrease depending on decreasing ferrous scrap market price move.