Steel Products Prices North America
June 7, 2015
Final April Steel Imports at 3.5 Million Tons
Written by John Packard
The US Department of Commerce release Final Census Data regarding April steel imports which were reported to be 3,501,337 net tons in total, down 3.2 percent over March data and down 6.3 percent over the level seen one year ago.
Semi-finished (blooms, billets, and slabs) imports recovered 118,000 tons from the four year low we saw in March, coming in at 532,799 tons. Semi-finished steels are purchased by the domestic mills and the vast majority of the slabs are going to mills such as California Steel, AM/NS Calvert, NLMK USA and others.
