Steel Products Prices North America
February 8, 2019
Rolled Steel Imports Trend Up in January
Written by Peter Wright
Rolled product imports increased by 4.5 percent in January, calculated as a three-month moving average (3MMA) year over year.
This early look at January’s import volume is based on Department of Commerce license data (see explanation below). Beginning in January 2018, we expanded this import analysis to include all major steel sectors: sheet, plate, longs and tubulars, with a total of 18 subsectors, and we now publish an import market share analysis for the same 18 steel product groups. 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.
