Steel Products Prices North America
January 5, 2017
Flat, Long, and Semi-Finished Imports through December 2016
Written by Peter Wright
Licensed data for December was reported by the Steel Import Monitoring System of the US Commerce Department on January 3rd. An explanation of the methodology that use at SMU to analyze the trade data is given at the end of this piece. All volumes in this analysis are reported in short tons.
In December, on a three month moving average (3MMA) basis, the plunge in HRC imports continued for the third consecutive month and long product imports broke through the bottom of the range that has existed for 34 months. The volume of HDG imports increased every month in 2016.
