POSCO Research Institute (POSRI) released the 6th issue of Asian Steel Watch (ASW) in December 2018.
This bi-annual English Journal specializes in the Asain steel industry and market.
In this issue, Asian Steel Watch sheds light on global value chains through the cover story titled, “The Steel Industry in the Context of Global Value Chains.”
It features an interview with the OECD Steel Committee Chair Lieven Top and a POSRI special report, “Ten Years after the Financial Crisis, Where is the Global Economy Headed?”
The feature stories of the ASW December issue include closed-loop system for the steel industry as well as steel industry policies under China’s Xi Jinping administration.
In Market Trend and Analysis section, the journal discusses China’s steel scrap supply and consumption through “The China Shock Revisited: Shifts in the Scrap Market Dynamics and Their Ramifications.”
The full version of the journal can be downloaded via POSRI at: https://www.posri.re.kr/eng/