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US flat products imports rise 18% in September

October 22, 2010

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports grew 18% from 468,000 short tons in August to 551,000 tons in September. This followed a 20% fall between July and August. In comparison, September 2009 imports were 434,000 tons and September 2008 imports were 816,000 tons. The largest volume increase in imports came from hot […]

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World steel production shrugs off China slowdown

October 21, 2010

Worldsteel published the September 2010 crude steel production data today. The data show that the monthly total global production of steel for September was about 112M metric tonnes. That’s a slight monthly decline (-1.5%) from August but a slight rise (1.8%) in the daily production rate. China’s production dropped about 7%, but the Rest of […]

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US long products imports fall 31% in September

October 18, 2010

Based on reported import licenses and as predicted in my earlier post, US long products imports dropped 31% to 188,000 short tons in September compared to 272,000 tons of licenses in August. This can be compared to long products imports of 136,000 tons in September 2009, 233,000 tons in September 2008 and 312,000 tons in […]

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New world steel demand forecast for 2011

October 6, 2010

We haven’t had time to study the data yet, but worldsteel published an updated Short Term Apparent Steel Use forecast a couple of days ago. At first glance it looks like demand this year is going to be higher than initially forecast in April 2010, while 2011 is set to grow at the same rate […]

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World steel capacity utilization falls to 73%

September 21, 2010

Worldsteel published the global steel production figures for August today. They confirm the gentle slowing of steel production with output declining marginally by 1% July to August. If production stays flat for the remainder of the year, it could still be a record production year. The thing to watch however, (and only if you’re careful […]

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US long products imports climb 11% in August

September 15, 2010

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports rose 11% to 272,000 short tons in August compared to 244,000 tons of licenses in July. This can be compared to long products imports of 125,000 tons in August 2009, 232,000 tons in August 2008, and 347,000 tons in August 2007. I will add actual July […]

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