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US flat products imports climb 6% in February

March 10, 2010

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports increased 6% from 432,000 short tons in January to 456,000 tons in February. This can be compared to 548,000 tons of flat products imports in February 2009.
Hot rolled imports showed the highest import volume gain by rising 20,000 tons in February while cut [...]

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US flat products imports rise 2% in January

February 11, 2010

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports increased 2% from 405,000 short tons in December to 412,000 tons in January. This can be compared to 532,000 tons of flat products imports in January 2009.
Hot dip galvanized imports showed the largest gains rising by 16% followed by hot rolled imports which [...]

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US flat products imports drop 6% in December

January 24, 2010

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports declined 6% from 423,000 short tons in November to 399,000 tons in December. This can be compared to 474,000 tons of flat products imports in December 2008.
The reduction in imports was driven by a 22% drop in hot roll imports, due basically to lower volumes [...]

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US flat products imports fall 7% in November

December 9, 2009

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports dropped 7% from 429,000 short tons in October (according to preliminary census figures) to 398,000 short tons in November. This can be compared to 641,000 tons of imports in November 2008.
Hot rolled and cold rolled imports both grew at 1% between October and November. [...]

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US flat products imports are flat in October

November 16, 2009

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports increased 1% from 434,000 short tons in September to 438,000 tons in October. This shows a slowing of flat imports growth after strong 10-25% growth per month since July.
Driving the small rise were hot dip galvanized imports which rose 8% to 91,000 tons, [...]

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US flat products imports rise 30% in September

October 15, 2009

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports rose 30% from 353,000 short tons in August to 458,000 tons in September. This compares to flat products imports of 816,000 tons in September when we started collecting flat products license data. Flat rolled imports have been rising continuously since a June 2009 [...]

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US flat products imports rise 27% in August

September 18, 2009

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports rose 27% from 291,000 short tons in July to 369,000 tons in August. This compares to flat products imports of 816,000 tons in September 2008 when we started collecting flat products license data.
Hot dip galvanized imports showed the only decline from 68,000 tons in July [...]

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US flat products imports rise 12% in July

August 15, 2009

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports rose 12% from 252,000 short tons in June to 282,000 tons in July. This compares to flat products imports of 816,000 tons in September 2008 when we started collecting flat products license data.
Hot rolled imports increased by 23% to 146,000 tons and hot dip galvanized [...]

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