Ministry of Commerce: Steel prices rose 0.1% last week (3.11-17)

According to the monitoring of the Ministry ofCommerce, the market price of production materials last week (March 11 to 17)was 0.1% higher than the previous week.

Production materials market: Steel prices roseby 0.1%, of which high-speed wire and rebar prices were 4,127 yuan and 4,069yuan per ton, respectively, up 0.2% and 0.1%. Coal prices rose by 0.1%, ofwhich coking coal price was 789 yuan per ton, up 0.4%. Anthracite and thermalcoal prices were 883 yuan and 602 yuan per ton, respectively, which were thesame as the previous week.