Steel Products Prices North America
July 14, 2020
SIMA: Steel Import License Data for June
Written by Peter Wright
Total rolled product imports in June were down by 25.4 percent on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis, year over year. This was the eighth consecutive month in which imports declined by more than 20 percent compared to the same month last year.
This early look at June’s import volume is based on Commerce Department license data (see explanation below.) This import analysis includes all major steel sectors: sheet, plate, longs and tubulars, with a total of 18 subsectors. All volumes in this analysis are reported in short tons. Three-month moving averages are used rather than single-month results to smooth out monthly variability.
