Steel Products Prices North America
April 5, 2019
SIMA: Steel Import License Data for March
Written by Peter Wright
Year over year, total rolled product imports in March were down by 11.2 percent, measured as a three-month moving average (3MMA).
This early look at March’s import volume is based on Commerce Department 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.
