Shipments amounted to 279,400 tonnes last month, against 265,300 tonnes a year before, Inda said on Tuesday February 18.
“The market is improving slowly,” Inda president Carlos Loureiro said.
The increase in sales came in a moment when flat steel producers were
applying a price increase of 10% to distributors, which was already fully implemented, according to Loureiro.
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