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US flat products imports rise 10% in April

May 11, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports rose 10% from 784,000 short tons in March to 864,000 tons in April. Flat products imports in April 2015 were 1,088,000 tons and in April 2014 they were 1,055,000 tons. Imports of flat products for the first four months of 2016 were 31% lower than in […]

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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 long products imports rise 7% in January

February 21, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports rose 7% from 458,000 short tons in December to 492,000 tons in January. Long products imports in January 2015 were 403,000 tons and in January 2014 they were 447,000 tons. Higher rebar imports from Turkey and Japan drove the increase in total January longs imports, though […]

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2015 world crude steel production 1.62Bn tonnes

January 26, 2016

Worldsteel published December and full-year 2015 global crude steel production on January 25th. World crude steel production was 126.7 million metric tonnes in December, 5.7% lower than in December 2014. Full-year 2015 production was 1,623 million tonnes, 2.8% lower than in 2014. Chinese crude production accounted for 50% of full-year 2015 world output and showed […]

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US long products imports rise 27% in December

January 20, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports increased 27% from 335,000 short tons in November to 424,000 tons in December. Long products imports in December 2014 were 353,000 tons and in December 2013 they were 280,000 tons. The increase in longs imports between November and December 2015 was driven mainly by higher wire […]

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US flat products imports climb 12% in December

January 7, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products import rose 12% from 843,000 short tons in November to 947,000 tons in December. Flat products imports in December 2014 were 1,333,000 tons and in December 2013 they were 738,000 tons. Imports of flat products for the full year 2015 were 7% lower than in 2014, driven […]

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