Steel Products Prices North America
March 24, 2015
March Steel Import Trends by Product
Written by John Packard
March imports are trending toward another very large month. We expect that when the final numbers are released, the month will come in about 3.6 to 3.8 million net tons which would be in line with our 12 month moving average of 3.7 million net tons. Last March imports were 3.2 million net tons. Note that March 2015 data is based on license data through the 24th and projected out through the entire month, and February 2015 data is preliminary census data. Therefore, the March figures are subject to change.
We thought our readers would enjoy taking a look at a number of products from the perspective of the top five exporting countries (top five as of the month of February 2015). In each table we show their exports for the month of March 2014, then February 2015 and their trend for March 2015. (We take license data through the 24th and expand it at the daily license request rate over the entire month to determine the March 2015 number. This number is not to be considered the countries final tally but only where we see them trending for the month).
