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US long products imports fall 15% on September 2019

October 19, 2020

Based on reported import licenses, now available on the new ITA Steel Import Monitor website, US long products imports fell 15% from 214,000 short tons in September 2019 to 181,000 tons in September this year. Licenses indicate that the decline was mainly due to lower rebar imports from Algeria, Spain, and Turkey. Based on January […]

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US flat products imports drop 22% on September 2019

October 7, 2020

Based on reported import licenses, US flat steel products imports fell 22% from 622,000 short tons in September 2019 to 482,000 tons last month. Hot rolled imports declined by the largest volume, down 25% on last September due mainly to lower volumes from Canada. Cold rolled imports dropped by the second largest volume, down 40% […]

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August world crude steel production 156Mt, +0.6% on August 2019

September 24, 2020

Worldsteel published August world crude steel production today. World steel output was 156.2 million metric tonnes, 0.6% higher than in August 2019. Crude steel production in the first eight months of 2020 was 4.1% lower than in the same period last year. China accounted for 61% of world output in August. Chinese production was 94.8 […]

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First River Steel Data Room dataset of the week: U.S. Census Bureau Trade by Commodity

September 22, 2020

The U.S. Census Bureau trade data holds so much information that it is difficult to make sense of it. That’s why First River has organized the commodity codes into the major steel product categories and created this week’s Steel Data Room dataset of the week, “U.S. Trade by Commodity (HS), Custom Dataset, Monthly Update”. Here’s […]

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US flat products imports down 24% on August 2019

September 10, 2020

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports fell 24% year-on-year from 638,000 short tons in August 2019 to 487,000 tons last month. Hot rolled imports declined by the largest volume, down 27%, mainly due to lower volumes from Canada. Cold rolled imports declined by the second largest volume, down 33% due to lower […]

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July world crude steel production 152.7Mt, -2.5% on July 2019

August 24, 2020

Worldsteel published July world crude steel production today. World steel output was 152.7 million metric tonnes, 2.5% lower than in July 2019. Crude steel production in the first seven months of 2020 was 5.0% lower than in the same period last year. China accounted for 61% of world production in July. Chinese production was 93.4 […]

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