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US long products imports rise 5% in March

April 18, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports rose 5% from 431,000 short tons in February to 452,000 tons in March. Long products imports in March 2015 were 583,000 tons and in March 2014 they were 410,000 tons. Longs imports for the first three months of 2016 were 9.6% lower than in the same […]

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US hot rolled imports down 54% since January 2015 peak

April 11, 2016

The US Department of Commerce published the preliminary anti-dumping decision on hot rolled steel imports on March 15th. Now that the February import data has been published, we can look at the impact of the trade case on import volumes, as we did in an earlier post for cold rolled imports. Since the last peak […]

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US flat products imports rise 2% in March

April 6, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports rose 2% from 860,000 short tons in February to 878,000 tons in March. Flat products imports in March 2015 were 1,271,000 tons and in March 2014 they were 1,001,000 tons. Imports of flat products for the first three months of 2016 were 32% lower than in […]

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China crude steel production 58.5M tonnes in February

March 23, 2016

Worldsteel reported Chinese crude steel production at 58.5 million metric tonnes in February, 4.0% lower than in February 2015. China’s net finished steel exports (exports minus imports) in February were 7.2 million tonnes, 3.6% lower than in February 2015 and 29.9% lower than the record net exports level reached in September 2015. China monthly crude […]

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US long products imports down 11% in February

March 20, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports fell 11% from 412,000 short tons in January to 365,000 tons in February. Long products imports in February 2015 were 446,000 tons and in February 2014 they were 298,000 tons. The drop in longs imports was mainly due to lower parallel flange sections imports, with significantly […]

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US cold rolled imports down 47% since October 2014 peak

March 11, 2016

The US Department of Commerce published the preliminary antidumping decision on cold rolled steel imports last week. It will be interesting to see what kind of impact the trade case have on import volumes. Since the last peak in October 2014, US cold rolled sheet (excluding strip) imports from all countries have declined by 47% […]

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