Dalian Commodity Exchange to Speed Up Launch of Recycled Steel, Sulfur Contracts

The signal here is less about two specific contracts than about the DCE's direction: broadening beyond its traditional agricultural and chemical base into steel raw materials and recycled feedstock, a segment China has been pushing to formalise. Recycled steel in particular sits at the intersection of industrial policy and hedging demand from mills and scrap processors, so a listed contract would give that opaque market a public price reference. Whether the research translates into actual listings, and how sulfur fits alongside existing chemical contracts, is the open question.