Steel Products Prices North America

January 28, 2014
January Imports Now Projected at 3.0 Million Tons
Written by John Packard
David Phelps warned our readers not to put too much stock in the U.S. Department of Commerce license data, which he felt could be very misleading. Our initial forecast for January steel imports produced through the aid of the import license data from the 14th and again on the 21st of January indicated a possible surge of imports to about 3.2 million net tons.
With the latest license data just released today (January 28) our total steel forecast is not barely breaking 3.0 million tons. The 3 million ton number is still a big number but 10 percent lower than what the numbers “suggested” earlier this month.


