Steel & Metals (tons, base price $800) is the backbone input of heavy industry — structural material for construction, vehicles, defense, and energy infrastructure.
Market behaviour
Prices blend 75% global supply/demand with 25% regional pressure and drift toward equilibrium at 6% per turn. Shortages compress downstream margins logarithmically; surpluses hand sellers a premium on the same curve.
Who supplies it
Sectors that produce Steel & Metals as output, with per-revenue supply rates:
- Manufacturing — 40% of sector revenue
Who demands it
Sectors that consume Steel & Metals as an input, with per-revenue demand rates:
- Automobiles — 25% of sector revenue
- Defense — 20% of sector revenue
- Energy — 15% of sector revenue
- Construction — 15% of sector revenue
- Real Estate — 8% of sector revenue
- Technology — 5% of sector revenue
- Retail — 3% of sector revenue
Live distribution
Per-country totals below are pulled live from the current turn's market snapshot. Countries with positive net are exporters on balance; negative nets are importers.