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For Immediate Release: December 24, 2008
November Monthly Steel Fact Sheet
The preliminary data released show that overall steel imports in November 2008 decreased 28.12 percent from October 2008. This marked change in November’s total amount of steel imports was due to a universal drop in all imports except for one small increase in Oil Country Goods (5.23%). The largest decreases were carbon & alloy blooms, billets, and slabs (-72.17%), plates in coil (-51.02%), hot rolled sheets (-36.05%), and stainless cold rolled sheets (-32.16%). November 2008 imports of steel mill products were down 3.5 percent compared to November 2007.
Preliminary Census Steel Import Statistic Comparisons |
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Nov 07 |
Oct 08 |
Nov 08 |
% Change |
% Change |
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Oct 08- Nov 08 |
Nov 07- Nov 08 |
All Steel Mill Products |
2,106,868 |
2,828,485 |
2,033,034 |
-28.12% |
-3.50% |
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All Carbon and Alloy Products |
2,033,074 |
2,749,004 |
1,959,892 |
-28.71% |
-3.60% |
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A |
313,537 |
557,864 |
155,237 |
-72.17% |
-50.49% |
Oil Country Goods -- C & A |
171,902 |
471,961 |
496,629 |
5.23% |
188.90% |
Line Pipe -- C & A |
277,497 |
257,104 |
201,034 |
-21.81% |
-27.55% |
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A |
237,800 |
214,943 |
137,455 |
-36.05% |
-42.20% |
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A |
101,445 |
157,402 |
108,790 |
-30.88% |
7.24% |
Plates in Coils -- C & A |
69,959 |
134,927 |
66,081 |
-51.02% |
-5.54% |
Standard Pipe -- C & A |
68,632 |
95,446 |
87,575 |
-8.25% |
27.60% |
Wire Rods -- C & A |
64,423 |
106,175 |
93,620 |
-11.82% |
45.32% |
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A |
84,488 |
107,284 |
68,488 |
-36.16% |
-18.94% |
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A |
60,888 |
34,294 |
19,982 |
-41.73% |
-67.18% |
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All Stainless Products |
73,793 |
79,481 |
73,141 |
-7.98% |
-0.88% |
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S |
21,608 |
24,022 |
16,116 |
-32.91% |
-25.42% |
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S |
11,025 |
10,707 |
10,167 |
-5.04% |
-7.78% |
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S |
9,908 |
9,982 |
7,317 |
-26.70% |
-26.15% |
**November 2008 figures are PRELIMINARY; final November figures to be released 01/13/09 |
*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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