Steel Products Prices North America
March 13, 2014
Apparent Supply of Sheet and Strip Products through January
Written by Peter Wright
Apparent supply is defined as domestic mill shipments to domestic locations plus imports. The three month moving average of the total tonnage of sheet and strip supply was 4,383,635 tons per month in the period November through January. This was down by 3.8 percent from the August through October period and up by 0.2 percent from one year ago. Table 1 shows the performance by product over three, twelve and twenty four month periods. All products had negative growth in the three months through January led by other metallic coated, down by 14.2 percent. On a comparison against both one and two years ago only hot rolled and other metallic coated had negative growth.
