Steel Products Prices North America

February 19, 2015
February Import License Data Trending Toward Another 4 Million Ton Month
Written by John Packard
The U.S. Department of Commerce released the latest import licensing data for the license requests received through the 18th of February. Steel Market Update (SMU) then compares the daily tonnage rate against the previous four months and the daily license rate being reported during the 3rd week of that particular month.
Based on that analysis, the trend for February 2015 steel imports is for this month to be another very large month with imports at, or above, those of January 2015. Based on license data as of February 18th, January is expected to come in around 4.4 million net tons of total foreign steel products (Preliminary Census data should be released next week).


