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Jessica Wagner

My 15 years of steel industry experience includes consulting based in Pittsburgh, working for the former Mannesmann Demag Hüttentechnik in Duisburg, Germany, consulting based in London and now in the Milan area. I concentrate on steel and raw materials research and analysis outside the US.

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2007 World Steel Production data by Country

March 6, 2008

Below are the IISI iron & steel production statistics found on the Japan Iron and Steel Federation website converted from pdf format to Excel. The spreadsheet also includes iron production. Clicking on ‘Editgrid Spreadsheet’ will show a full size version available for copying or saving. EditGrid Spreadsheet by user/nerdsofsteel.

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IISI Iron and Crude Steel Production 2007

February 29, 2008

You may be interested to know that you can find preliminary IISI iron and crude steel production statistics for 2007 by country on the Japan Iron and Steel Federation Website. These statistics aren’t available on the IISI website and aren’t usually published in the IISI Steel Statistical Yearbook until July.

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December US long products imports reach record low

February 18, 2008

For those of you who are following US long products imports, December actual import figures have now been published, and are almost 30,000 short tons less than November imports, confirming low import licenses collected for the month. You can view the updated data from my earlier post related to January import licenses.

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US long products imports rebound

February 14, 2008

US long products imports rose in January for the first time since June 2007, based on SIMA US import licenses. As you can see in the spreadsheet below, an increase in rebar and beam import licenses is driving the rebound. Rebar licenses almost tripled in Jan 08 compared to the Dec 07, but are still […]

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US long products imports continue to decline

January 21, 2008

US import licenses for long products declined from 240,000 short tons in November ’07 to 222,000 short tons in December, based on SIMA data.  This is the lowest level of long products import licenses since we began tracking them in April 07 when they were 358,000 short tons.  As you may have seen from earlier posts, SIMA import […]

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SIMA US long products import licenses for Sept, Oct, Nov 07

January 2, 2008

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  […]

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