Steel Prices in Pakistan — Per Ton Rate List

This is the working rate list Raw Easy Corp quotes from at Moin Steel Market, Karachi — hot rolled coil, GP/GI galvanised, PPGI colour-coated and galvalume, quoted in Pakistani rupees per ton. The table shows the thickness, width, grade and, where it applies, the coil weight each rate belongs to; for the figure on your own lot, call +92 314 3279729 with the specification and tonnage in front of you.

Rates in the table above were last updated on 20 August 2026. Flat steel moves with the mill rate, the dollar and freight, so call +92 314 3279729 with your specification and tonnage for the figure that applies on the day.

How to read this steel rate list

Where the PRICE/TON column carries a rupee figure, it is Pakistani rupees per ton — that is per 1,000 kg, the metric ton the local steel trade works in. If you need a per-kilo figure, divide by 1,000. Read each row from the left: the material, the thickness in millimetres, the width or type, the grade, then the rate, the coil weight and the point the material is offered from.

Two kinds of price appear in the same column. Some rows carry an absolute rupee figure. Others are written as a differential against the mill rate — a figure followed by “down Mill Rate”. A differential means the price is the prevailing local mill rate for the equivalent grade and thickness, less the amount shown on that row: take the mill rate you are working with and subtract the stated differential to get the rupee figure. Imported material that competes directly against local coil is commonly quoted this way, including the Chinese prime GP lines here — rather than restate a number every time the mills revise their lists, the row is written against the mill. Two things follow: such a line cannot be read as a finished figure without the mill rate on the day, and the differential itself tells you where the imported coil sits relative to the local mill.

A line with no rupee figure is priced against the lot. Secondary is not a standard product — gauge tolerance, coating weight and surface condition vary from one lot to the next — so it cannot be priced off a list the way prime can, which is why such a row can read “Depends on Deal” rather than carry a number. If you are buying secondary galvanised coil, inspect it and ask what the lot consists of; our note on white rust on galvanised coil covers what to look for on the surface.

The Coil Weight column is the approximate weight of a single coil of that material, where the row states one, so you can turn a per-ton rate into the cost of one coil by multiplying the two together. On the hot rolled line it carries a minimum order quantity instead of a coil weight. Where a cell is blank, the list does not state it — ask.

The GRADE column carries the material specification: commercial quality on the prime coated and galvanised rows, a hard temper on the secondary row, a structural grade such as Q235B on hot rolled, and a colour reference (9016, white) on the colour-coated row. Hard-temper material has very little elongation, so it suits roll-forming to a profile rather than deep bending or drawing. Where a Z number appears in the material description — Z95, Z140 — that is the zinc coating class, which the galvanised section below explains. Widths are in millimetres: 1000, 1200 and 1219 are the standard coil widths in this market, and odd widths turn up on secondary lots.

The Delivery From column names the point each line is offered from. It tells you where the material is and nothing more than that; it is not a commitment on delivery, freight or timing. Rates on this list are indicative of the position as at the date shown on this page and are confirmed on enquiry — mill revisions, the rupee and duty changes all move the number in between. Before you cost a job on these figures, call +92 314 3279729 or come to the office at 85-A, Moin Steel Market, Karachi, and have the rate, availability, the coil weight, the location, and whether the line is quoted duty-paid or ex-bond, confirmed for the lot you are actually buying.

The list covers hot rolled coil, galvanised, colour-coated and galvalume. Cold rolled coil does not appear as a row on it — the ISL CRC and Aisha CRC pages cover that product, and the wider range is on our products list.

HRC (hot rolled coil) prices in Pakistan

No mill in Pakistan currently rolls hot rolled coil, so every ton of HRC sold in the country is imported. That one fact explains most of what you see in an HRC quote. The rate follows the international coil price at the time the material was bought, the rupee against the dollar, and freight and port costs — there is no local mill announcement to anchor it. It also means two traders can both quote honestly and still be some way apart: each is quoting against a landed cost he has already committed to, and consignments bought weeks apart carry different costs.

HRC also sits differently from coated steel on duty. It currently carries no anti-dumping duty from any origin, while Chinese-origin galvanised, colour-coated and galvalume all do. So an HRC number moves with the base price, the dollar and freight, whereas a coated number moves with those and with whatever anti-dumping duty attaches to the origin — and, on Chinese galvanised, to the individual exporter. This is one of the clearest differences between imported and locally produced flat steel in Pakistan.

Four things move the per-ton rate on any given enquiry:

• Thickness. Thinner material costs more per ton than heavy plate-gauge coil, because rolling and handling cost per ton rises as the sheet gets thinner. Ask for the rate against your exact thickness, not a general HRC figure.
• Width. Standard widths are priced differently from odd widths, and the width you buy decides how much of the coil ends up as offcut on your side. Compare on usable tons, not on the headline rate.
• Grade. Q235B is the standard Chinese commercial structural grade and covers most general work. Where the job is welded or load-bearing, the grade should be confirmed on the paperwork — see our note on reading a mill test certificate.
• Quantity. A trial quantity and a full-lot enquiry are not the same conversation, and will not carry the same number.

HRC is the raw input for pipe and tube making, structural sections, chassis and body work, and general fabrication where the sheet is cut and welded rather than exposed to weather. It is uncoated, so it will rust if it is stored damp or left out — plan on painting or coating whatever you make from it.

The hot rolled line on the rate list above is shown in the thickness and width combinations given, in Q235B, and against a minimum order quantity rather than a coil weight. Grade and dimensional ranges are on the HRC page; for the number and availability applying to your enquiry, use our contact page.

GP / GI galvanised coil and sheet prices in Pakistan

A galvanised rate on its own tells you very little. Two more numbers have to travel with it: the thickness and the zinc coating class. GP and GI are the same material, the two terms used interchangeably in this market for coil and for sheet, and the coating is quoted in grams of zinc per square metre across both faces — Z95, Z120, Z140 and so on. It is the figure most often left out of a comparison. Zinc is the costly addition to a galvanised sheet, so at the same thickness and from the same mill a heavier coating costs more per ton. It is also what buys outdoor life: in a coastal, humid climate like Karachi’s, the coating class largely decides how many years pass before red rust appears. Our Z80 to Z275 zinc coating guide sets out what each class is fit for.

This is where buyers lose money. A Z95 sheet quoted against a Z140 sheet of the same thickness will normally be quoted cheaper, because there is less zinc on it — you are not being offered a better price, you are being offered a different product with a shorter life. The same applies in reverse: a heavier coating on a thinner base metal does not make up for the loss of strength and stiffness. Thickness and coating have to be compared together, as a pair, against what the sheet actually has to do. If you buy in gauge rather than millimetres, convert first using the GI/GP gauge to mm chart — gauge is nominal, and two suppliers can mean two different thicknesses by the same gauge number.

Duty is the other half of a Chinese GP number. Chinese galvanised carries anti-dumping duty at mill-specific rates, with a higher residual rate applying to exporters not named in the determination, and those rates are subject to review. Two apparently identical Chinese GP coils can therefore land at meaningfully different costs depending on which exporter shipped them, so the name on the documents is part of the price, not a detail — confirm the rate attaching to it before you fix a number. Why these duties exist, and how their scope has shifted, is covered in our note on anti-dumping duty on galvanised steel, and product specifications are on the GP China Prime page.

Galvalume (HESHE) prices in Pakistan

Galvalume — also sold as aluzinc or AZ-coated coil — is steel coated with an aluminium-zinc alloy, roughly 55% aluminium, rather than plain zinc. The aluminium content gives it markedly better heat reflectance and better unpainted corrosion performance in flat exposure than ordinary galvanised coil, though plain zinc still gives better sacrificial protection at a cut edge. It is widely used for roofing sheets, wall cladding, industrial sheds and warehouse roofs in Karachi and upcountry. HESHE is among the Chinese aluzinc brands most commonly traded here, and it is the galvalume line carried on the rate list above, in the light gauges that roofing work consumes; the list itself carries the exact gauge, width and coil weight. Product detail is on our HESHE galvalume coil page.

Duty sets the level of galvalume pricing in Pakistan as firmly as the mill quote does. Chinese-origin galvalume is subject to a flat 40.47% anti-dumping duty, imposed as an anti-circumvention measure and notified to run to February 2027. It is a flat rate rather than a mill-specific one, unlike the galvanised duties. That is why a China galvalume number and a plain GP number of the same gauge cannot be compared on the mill price alone. The full breakdown is in our guide to the galvalume anti-dumping duty in Pakistan.

The practical consequence for a buyer is this: a galvalume quote that lands well below the market should prompt questions rather than an order. Ask what origin is on the documents, ask which duty was assessed at clearance, and satisfy yourself on the paperwork before you commit — our note on reading a mill test certificate sets out what that paperwork should say. Material cleared under a description that sidesteps the measure is a problem that can resurface long after the coil has been delivered. Check too what the price is actually buying you: AZ coating mass is not interchangeable with zinc coating mass, and the two are quoted on different scales. Our guide to Z80 to Z275 coating weights sets out the Z-series side of that.

PPGI / colour-coated coil prices in Pakistan

PPGI — pre-painted galvanised iron, what the market simply calls colour coil — is galvanised substrate that has gone through a coil-coating line and come out with a cured factory paint system on it. Because you are paying for the base coil plus the coating process, prime PPGI normally prices at a premium over prime GP of the same thickness and width. What buyers get wrong is treating that premium as a fixed number. It is not, because the paint is a real cost input in its own right: polyester (PE) is the economy system and the usual choice for interior work and short-horizon sheds; silicone-modified polyester (SMP) costs more and holds gloss and colour appreciably longer outdoors; PVDF costs more again and is the system specified where long-term colour and gloss retention outdoors is the deciding factor. Two coils that are both honestly described as PPGI can therefore be far apart on price and equally far apart on service life. Our PE, SMP and PVDF comparison explains what each system is worth paying for, and the coil itself is on our colour-coated steel coil page.

Colour drives availability as much as it drives price. 9016 white is the colour-coated line shown on the rate list above. Shades outside those that move in volume here are normally mill-run indents rather than stock, which puts lead time and minimum quantity into the question alongside price. Paint batches also drift between runs, so a replacement sheet cut from a later batch can show against the original roof — a point worth settling with whoever supplies the material before an order is placed, not after. Duty matters here too: Chinese colour-coated has been subject to anti-dumping duty since 2018, which is part of why imported PPGI prices behave the way they do relative to the substrate underneath. Our note on anti-dumping duty on galvanised steel sets out how these measures work.

Most roofing buyers do not want flat coil at all — they want profiled sheet, so the working comparison is PPGI against plain galvanised and against galvalume on covered area rather than per ton. Our corrugated steel sheet page covers the profiled product, and PPGI vs GI vs galvalume for roofing sets the three side by side.

What moves steel prices in Pakistan

Four things account for most of the movement in flat steel rates here, and they do not move together. Knowing which one has shifted tells you whether a change is likely to hold or to reverse in a fortnight.

1. The local mill rate. International Steels (ISL) and Aisha Steel (ASML) are the two domestic producers of cold rolled and galvanised coil, both listed on the PSX, and their rates are the reference locally rolled coil is priced from. When either revises its list, imported material re-prices alongside it — which is why part of the list above is written as a differential rather than as a fixed number. Our ISL and Aisha comparison sets out how the two mills compare and why their list prices tend to track each other closely.
2. The rupee and the international price. For imported material the cost is the international price converted at the rupee, plus freight, duty and clearing. A rupee that moves two or three per cent moves landed cost by roughly the same before anything else has changed at all. Imported coil is quoted in this market against the local mill, but the landed cost underneath it follows the dollar — our brand and origin guide covers who supplies what into Pakistan. This is the plainest reason a rate you were quoted a few weeks ago may no longer stand, and why it is worth confirming rather than assuming.
3. Duty and regulatory change. Duty is not background noise in flat steel; it can be the single largest difference between two otherwise identical coils, and it attaches to the origin and the named exporter rather than to the coil itself. Anti-dumping duties are imposed and revised by the National Tariff Commission, so the position that matters is the one applying on the day your consignment clears. On top of that, the annual Finance Bill can revise customs duty, additional customs duty and regulatory duty on flat steel, and those changes hit landed cost from the date they take effect rather than gradually — our breakdown of the Finance Bill tariff changes sets out what shifted and for which grades.
4. Freight and mill lead times. The slowest of the four, and the one buyers most often leave out of the sum. Sea freight and a mill’s order book set the floor under an import: material booked now arrives weeks later and carries whatever the cost was at the time of booking, not at the time of arrival. That is why landed coil and coil still to be shipped rarely price the same, and why an unusually keen quote is sometimes just a different arrival date. When freight firms up or lead times stretch, the effect reaches the local market with a lag — and unwinds with one too.

If you want the position on a specific grade, thickness and width, it is faster to ask than to work it out from a list. Call +92 314 3279729 or use our contact page; the wider flat steel range is on our products list.

Common questions about steel rates in Pakistan

What is the steel rate in Pakistan today?

There is no single national steel rate. A flat steel price only means something once the product, thickness, width, grade and quantity are fixed — a 0.5 mm galvanised coil, a colour-coated coil in a given shade and a 5 mm hot rolled coil are three separate markets that move independently of each other. The table above shows the specifications the list covers and, against each one, either a rupee-per-ton figure or the basis that line is priced on.

Are the prices in this list final?

Treat them as the basis for a quotation rather than a fixed offer. Steel is bought in lots, and the figure against your order depends on the exact grade, thickness, width and quantity you need, and on where the mill rate and the dollar sit on the day the lot is confirmed. Call +92 314 3279729 with the specification and tonnage in front of you for the figure on that lot.

What does “down mill rate” mean?

It means a discount, in rupees per ton, off the local mill’s rate for the equivalent grade and thickness, rather than a standalone number. The discount is the part that is agreed; the mill rate underneath it moves whenever the mills revise their lists, which is why such a line cannot be read as a finished figure without knowing the mill rate on the day. On this list the convention applies to imported Chinese prime GP, which the market prices against the local mill.

What is the difference between prime and secondary steel?

Prime is first-quality mill production released to the mill’s own specification, and it is normally sold with a mill test certificate against which an off-spec coil can be argued. Secondary is material the mill did not release as prime — thickness or coating varying within the coil, surface marks, edge damage, coil breaks or weld joins — and it is bought on inspection of the actual lot rather than off a list. That is why secondary is quoted deal by deal, and why usable yield matters more than the headline per-ton number. For roofing and any visible finished surface prime is the safer buy; for backing, ducting and hidden fabrication, secondary often makes commercial sense.

What decides the price of a roofing sheet in Karachi?

A roofing sheet rate is built up from the coil it is rolled from, so the coil lines on the list above are the starting point rather than the finished number. Three things decide it: the base material, whether that is plain galvanised, colour-coated PPGI or galvalume; the thickness; and the coating class on it. A light sheet in a light coating and a heavier sheet in a heavier coating are both sold as roofing sheet here and will be neither the same price nor the same service life, so compare them per square metre of roof covered rather than per ton. Our PPGI, GI and galvalume roofing comparison and our corrugated steel page cover the profiled product.

Is local or imported flat steel cheaper?

It depends on the product, and duty often matters more than the mill price. Pakistan has two local cold rolled and galvanised producers, International Steels (ISL) and Aisha Steel (ASML), whose rates the market prices against. Imported Chinese galvanised and colour-coated both carry anti-dumping duty, so imported coated material is not automatically the cheaper option once duty is counted. Hot rolled coil is the exception: it is not produced in Pakistan at all, so every ton of it is imported, and it currently carries no anti-dumping duty from any origin. Our note on local versus imported flat steel works through where each one wins.

Buying in Karachi? Our Karachi steel supplier page explains how these rates are quoted locally and what to bring to an enquiry.