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For Immediate Release: April 22, 2008
March Monthly Steel Fact Sheet
The preliminary data released today show that overall steel imports in March 2008 increased 1.2 percent from February 2008. The marginal change in March’s total amount of steel imports was due to an decrease in some goods, such as blooms billets and slabs (-19%) and hot rolled sheet (-24%) and an increase in other goods such as oil country goods (48%) and plates in coils (32%). There was a notable 69% increase in standard pipe. Similarly, stainless imports increased 1.11% resulting from mixed increases and decreases in individual stainless products. February 2008 imports of steel mill products were down 17.4 percent compared to February 2007.
Preliminary Census Steel Import Statistic Comparisons |
Product |
Mar-07 |
Feb-08 |
Mar-08 |
% Change |
% Change |
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Feb 08 - Mar 08 |
Mar 07 - Mar 08 |
All Steel Mill Products |
2,758,598 |
2,252,849 |
2,279,781 |
1.20% |
-17.36% |
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All Carbon and Alloy Products |
2,654,764 |
2,166,107 |
2,192,075 |
1.20% |
-17.43% |
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A |
472,113 |
491,765 |
396,551 |
-19.36% |
-16.01% |
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A |
228,319 |
225,957 |
171,862 |
-23.94% |
-24.73% |
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A |
194,040 |
102,648 |
148,996 |
45.15% |
-23.21% |
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A |
155,269 |
95,303 |
81,777 |
-14.19% |
-47.33% |
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A |
199,136 |
108,264 |
109,372 |
1.02% |
-45.08% |
Wire Rods -- C & A |
131,600 |
70,502 |
73,486 |
4.23% |
-44.16% |
Line Pipe -- C & A |
196,291 |
263,219 |
229,577 |
-12.78% |
16.96% |
Oil Country Goods -- C & A |
145,721 |
133,794 |
197,977 |
47.97% |
35.86% |
Plates in Coils -- C & A |
77,445 |
57,831 |
76,109 |
31.61% |
-1.73% |
Standard Pipe -- C & A |
110,308 |
60,778 |
102,789 |
69.12% |
-6.82% |
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All Stainless Products |
103,833 |
86,741 |
87,705 |
1.11% |
-15.53% |
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S |
26,140 |
33,553 |
32,638 |
-2.73% |
24.86% |
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S |
13,383 |
8,675 |
11,156 |
28.60% |
-16.64% |
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S |
11,356 |
11,164 |
9,211 |
-17.49% |
-18.89% |
**March 2008 figures are PRELIMINARY; final March figures to be released 5/9/08. |
*All numbers represent quantity in metric tons. |
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* Please see the SIMA website for further data and graphs: http://ia.ita.doc.gov/steel/license/index.html
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