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April world crude steel production 134.9M tonnes

May 23, 2016

Worldsteel published April’s world crude steel production on May 20th. World crude steel output was 134.9 million metric tonnes, 0.5% lower than in April 2015. World crude production for the first four months of 2016 was 2.5% lower than in the same period last year. China accounted for 51% of world production in April with […]

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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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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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US cold rolled imports down 47% since October 2014 peak

March 11, 2016

The US Department of Commerce published the preliminary antidumping decision on cold rolled steel imports last week. It will be interesting to see what kind of impact the trade case have on import volumes. Since the last peak in October 2014, US cold rolled sheet (excluding strip) imports from all countries have declined by 47% […]

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January 2016 world crude steel production 127.7M tonnes

February 24, 2016

Worldsteel published January’s world crude steel production on February 23rd. World crude steel production was 127.7 million metric tonnes, 7.1% lower than in January 2015. China accounted for 49% of world production in January with an output of 63.2M tonnes, down 7.8% compared to January 2015. Significant production declines compared to January 2015 in the […]

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US long products imports rise 7% in January

February 21, 2016

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports rose 7% from 458,000 short tons in December to 492,000 tons in January. Long products imports in January 2015 were 403,000 tons and in January 2014 they were 447,000 tons. Higher rebar imports from Turkey and Japan drove the increase in total January longs imports, though […]

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