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Another record daily world crude steel production for April

May 31, 2012

Worldsteel published April’s global crude steel production statistics on May 21st and while monthly crude steel production dropped 2.8% to 128.4 million metric tonnes, due to the short April month, daily crude steel production rose 0.5% to a record 4.279 million tonnes. China’s average daily production in April was 2% higher than March’s which counteracted […]

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US long products imports 3% lower in April

May 20, 2012

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports fell 3% from 278,000 short tons in March to 270,000 tons in April. In comparison, March long products imports in 2011 were 239,000 tons, in 2010 232,000 tons, in 2009 168,000 tons, and in 2008 314,000 tons. The small change in April imports reflected a drop […]

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US flat products imports rise 34% in April

May 14, 2012

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports rose 34% from 660,000 short tons in March to 887,000 tons in April. This is the highest level of flat products imports since we started collecting data in September 2008. The climb was driven by a 75% or 207,000-ton rise in hot rolled imports, with significant […]

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World apparent steel use revised downward in April 2012 Short Range Outlook

May 8, 2012

worldsteel‘s forecast for growth in world apparent steel use in 2012 was revised downward from 5.4% in October 2011’s Short Range Outlook to 3.6% in April 2012’s Short Range Outlook published recently. Driving the change in the forecast is worldsteel’s estimate that China’s steel use will grow by 4.0% in 2012 instead of by 6%. […]

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Record world crude steel production in March

April 26, 2012

Oh yes it was. Worldsteel published the latest global crude steel production statistics last week and the monthly output for March in total and on a daily basis was a record 132.2 million metric tonnes and 4.3 million metric tonnes respectively. China alone produced 61.6MT in the month, more than all but about 3 countries […]

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US long products imports rise 25% in March

April 23, 2012

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports rose 25% from 313,000 short tons in February to 385,000 tons in March. In comparison, long products imports in February in 2011 were 196,000 tons, in 2010 206,000 tons, in 2009 115,000 tons, and in 2008 330,000 tons. The overall climb was driven by a 54,000-ton […]

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