Sales Method

• Tied sale
  Specified customers's order contents (price, volume, specifications, etc.) are informed to steelmakers, and those steel products conforming to the order content are produced for them. Contracts are made between steelmakers and trading firms and between trading firms and customers in this sales form.
• Retail sale
  Steelmakers sell steel products to retailers and trading firms without end users being specified, and the retailers and trading firms stockpile the steel products which are purchased at their responsibility and risk and then sell the products with their own sales efforts, taking into account the market and other conditions.

Distribution Routes

Transport Mode of Steel Products for Domestic Customers

Sixty percent of domestic transport of steel products is by coastal shipping and forty percent by truck.

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