Location Within Country: Countrywide

Completion date (month/year): December 17, 2018 

The objective of the market study was to carry out the overview of long steel products in Bangladesh and assessing potentiality for a new entrant.

Answers provided under the assignment:

• • Total domestic demand in Bangladesh for Rebar, Angle and Channel by grades/sizes for the past 10 years.
  • Total domestic production in Bangladesh for Rebar, Angle and Channel by grades/sizes for the past 10 years.
  • 10-year forecast for Rebar Angle and Channel domestic demand by grades/ sizes. 
  • 10-year forecast for Rebar, Angle and Channel domestic production by grades/sizes.
• List of domestic mills (20 to 25 mills) for Rebar Angle and Channel and type of finance (EAF, Blast Furnace or Induction Furnace).
• The capacity and actual production of each domestic mill for each product by grades/sizes.
• Products and capacity expansion plan of each domestic mill.
• Past 3 years financial information of top 10 mills by capacity (if available)
• Import statistics of Rebar, Angle and Channel (5 to 10 years).
• Domestic strap supply statistics.
• Scrap import statistics (5 to 10 years).
• Production Cost analysis – cost or ratio of electricity, labor, raw material, capex etc. to produce 1 MT of steel
• What is the import duty (or other safeguard measures) for rebar, angle and channel