Steel Products Prices North America

June 27, 2017
June Foreign Steel Import Trend is 3.9 Million Tons
Written by John Packard
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) released Preliminary Census Data on May indicating foreign steel imports totaled 3.6 million net tons. They also released license data for June and we are seeing the trend indicating the month will be close to 3.8 million net tons (license data through the 27th of June).
The numbers for June are even more impressive (alarming if you are a steel mill) when compared to the 2.8 million tons imported one year ago and the 3.1 million tons imported during the “import surge” year of 2014. This month is poised to be the highest import month since February 2015 (prior to AD/CVD suits) when the USA received 4,3993,498 tons.


