Scrap Prices North America
March 23, 2020
Global Scrap Market: U.S. Share Increases
Written by Peter Wright
Global scrap trade has been trending down for two years and in Q4 2019 the U.S. share increased to 26.8 percent, the highest since Q1 2013.
This is a quarterly analysis using data from the Iron and Steel Statistics Bureau (ISSB) in the UK. Some nations are slow to report, which results in the analysis being two months in arrears, but it offers a valuable perspective on global trends. All tonnages in this report are metric.
