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World crude steel production published for May

June 29, 2011

worldsteel published May 2011′s world crude steel production last Monday. Monthly production increased 2.9% between April and May, though daily average crude production was down 0.4% on April. Countries contributing to the monthly increase included China, which increased 1,213,000 tonnes over April, Japan, which increased 614,000 tonnes, Germany, which increased 303,000 tonnes, and finally Brazil, [...]

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US flat products imports down 13% in February

March 11, 2011

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports fell 13% from 534,000 short tons in January to 463,000 tons in February. In comparison, February 2010 flat imports were 444,000 tons and February 2009 imports were 548,000 tons. The decline was driven by lower hot roll imports, which decreased by 67,000 tons or 23%, due [...]

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US flat products imports fall 6% in December

January 16, 2011

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports declined 6% from 513,000 short tons in November to 481,000 tons in December. This can be compared to 405,000 tons in December 2009 and 474,000 tons in December 2008. Hot dip galvanized imports fell the most, dropping by 22,000 tons due to significant declines from Korea [...]

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US long products imports flat in October

November 19, 2010

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports stayed flat in October at 194,000 short tons compared to September imports of 195,000 tons. Imports of all products declined except for beams and structural angles and channels. Beams imports more than doubled from 15,000 tons to 35,000 tons, with the rise coming mainly from Germany, [...]

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US flat products imports drop 21% in June

July 22, 2010

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports declined 21% from 639,000 short tons in May to 506,000 tons in June. This can be compared to 252,000 tons of flat products imports in June 2009. The decline was driven by hot rolled imports which dropped by 107,000 tons due to lower imports from a [...]

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Profile of the German Steel Industry in 2009

July 7, 2009

The German Steel Federation (VDEh) is one of the best sources of information about its national steel industry (and lots of others too) anywhere in the world. Take for instance, this excellent recent profile of the German Steel Industry (in PDF) by Herr Dr-Ing Carl-Dieter Wuppermann. If you send them to us, we’ll be happy [...]

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