Steel Products Prices North America
February 21, 2018
Steel Imports on the Decline Through January
Written by Peter Wright
Total rolled steel imports declined by 15.0 percent, and sheet products by 17.3 percent, in the three months through January compared to the prior three-month period, according to Steel Market Update’s analysis of federal Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data.
This month’s SMU report was delayed as we performed a major revamp of our import analysis to include all major steel sectors: sheet, plate, longs and tubulars, with a total of 18 subsectors. See the end of this piece for an explanation of the methodology. All volumes in this analysis are reported in short tons. We use three-month moving averages rather than single-month results to smooth out the variability.
