Below is Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis System (SIMA) data comparing US long products import licenses to actual imports for September and October 2007. November licenses are also listed below, though actuals are not yet available because Department of Commerce actual import data is published 6 weeks after the end of each month. The license data is published weekly on Tuesdays on the SIMA website, and as you can see below, license data published about 2 weeks after the end of each month is a pretty good indicator of actual results. All data below is in short tons.
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