July 17, 2009
Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports rose 9% from 98,000 short tons in May to 108,000 tons in June. To put this in perspective, long products imports in June 2008 were 269,000 tons and in June 2007, 496,000 tons. There were some significant changes within the product categories. Rebar imports dropped 59% […]
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July 14, 2009
Lots of people are watching the AISI’s weekly utilization data very closely, including us. I referred in a recent post how anemic the improvements in capacity utilization have been and the improvement is indeed slow. But we passed a kind of milestone last week. According to the AISI, the US steel industry got above 50% […]
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