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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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US long products imports rise 5% in March

April 18, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports rose 5% from 431,000 short tons in February to 452,000 tons in March. Long products imports in March 2015 were 583,000 tons and in March 2014 they were 410,000 tons. Longs imports for the first three months of 2016 were 9.6% lower than in the same […]

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Worldsteel reduces 2016 world steel demand growth forecast

April 14, 2016

In its latest Short Range Outlook (SRO), published April 13th, Worldsteel revised its world apparent steel use (ASU) growth forecast downward. The revision lowered estimated world steel demand growth between 2015 and 2016 from 0.7% in it’s October 2015 Short Range Outlook to -0.8% in the recent published figures. In addition, Worldsteel expects world ASU […]

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US hot rolled imports down 54% since January 2015 peak

April 11, 2016

The US Department of Commerce published the preliminary anti-dumping decision on hot rolled steel imports on March 15th. Now that the February import data has been published, we can look at the impact of the trade case on import volumes, as we did in an earlier post for cold rolled imports. Since the last peak […]

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US flat products imports rise 2% in March

April 6, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports rose 2% from 860,000 short tons in February to 878,000 tons in March. Flat products imports in March 2015 were 1,271,000 tons and in March 2014 they were 1,001,000 tons. Imports of flat products for the first three months of 2016 were 32% lower than in […]

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China crude steel production 58.5M tonnes in February

March 23, 2016

Worldsteel reported Chinese crude steel production at 58.5 million metric tonnes in February, 4.0% lower than in February 2015. China’s net finished steel exports (exports minus imports) in February were 7.2 million tonnes, 3.6% lower than in February 2015 and 29.9% lower than the record net exports level reached in September 2015. China monthly crude […]

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February world crude steel production 120.4M tonnes

March 23, 2016

Worldsteel published February’s world crude steel production on March 21st. World crude steel output was 120.4 million metric tonnes, 3.3% lower than in February 2015. World crude production for the first 2 months of 2016 was 5.6% lower than in the same period of 2015. China accounted for 49% of world production in February with […]

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