US long products imports rise 4% in July

by Jessica Wagner on August 14, 2009

in Data,Nerds Only,Products & Markets

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports rose 4% from 105,000 short tons in June to 109,000 tons in July. To put this in perspective, US long products imports in July 2007 were 563,000 tons and in July 2008 they were 270,000 tons.

This marginal rise in total long products imports masks some significant changes in imports by product. For example, July licenses show rebar imports rising 70% to 36,000 tons and All Other Structual Shapes imports dropping 66% to 5,000 tons.

Licenses reported up to August 12th were 56,000 tons which indicates that long products imports will rise above July levels in the full month of August.