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March 4, 2014
Imports of Sheet & Strip Through February 2014
Written by Peter Wright
Steel Market Update covers subjects in a variety of ways for our specific member groups. In the article below, Peter Wright provides a deeper analysis of preliminary steel import license numbers for flat rolled steel products which normally goes to our Premium Level customers:
This month we decided to start this piece with a review of the difference between licensed and preliminary import numbers using January 2014 as the base. This is a follow up on David Phelps’ recent article in Steel Market Update. To clarify the timing of these reports, we will use January as an example. The licensed data is issued weekly on Tuesdays and the final January licensed data was available on February 4th. January preliminary data came out on the 26th of February; this is the first estimate of what actually arrived. Final January data will be released on about March 10th.
