According to the short-range outlook report issued by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, demand has continued to improve in the global long steel products market, especially in the Americas and ...
Tags: Long Steel Markets, Healthy Demand
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that for the month of April 2014, US steel mills shipped 8,235,096 net tons, a 1.2 percent decrease from the 8,337,578 net tons shipped in the previous month, March 2014, and a ...
Tags: Steel Shipments, Steel
In the week ending June 7, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,845,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 76.7 percent, according to a report Monday from the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). Production was ...
The US International Trade Commission (US ITC) has announced that it will expedite the sunset reviews of the antidumping (AD) duty order on imports of certain steel threaded rod and malleable iron pipe fittings from China. The US ITC will ...
The Brazil Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) told local media on Monday that the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil’s largest steel producer, has been declining its industrial production. “What we’ve seen, ...
Tags: Metals, Automotive Industry
According to official data, the Mexican government has stopped the export of about 300,000 tons of iron ore (totaling US$30 million) since March from four ships: one containing 68,000 tons, two ships with 100,000 tons each, and a fourth ...
Tags: Iron Ore Ships, iron ore
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in April this year South Africa's manufacturing output decreased by 1.5 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The main reasons for the decrease included the ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Output
In May this year, the value of Taiwan's iron and steel exports decreased by 0.6 percent year on year and declined by 2.6 percent compared to April to $1.53 billion, according to the preliminary statistics issued by Taiwan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Import
According to a report Monday from the American Institute for International Steel (AIIS), US steel exports grew for the second month in a row in April, expanding 3.8 percent from March to 1.08 million net tons. Exports were 3.7 percent ...
Tags: Steel Exports, US steel
Alcoa Wheel & Transportation Products says the Ultra One is the world's lightest heavy-duty truck wheel that will help trucks shed pounds for increased payload and fuel efficiency. The 40-pound wheel is 47% lighter than steel wheels of ...
Tags: Truck Wheel, Wheel, Auto Parts
Latin America is the second most important destination for Chinese finished steel exports, said Alacero on Tuesday. According to the trade group, finished steel imports from China to Latin America reached 2.5 million metric tons between ...
Tags: Finished Steel, steel exports
Turkey-based steel producer MMK Metalurji, a subsidiary of Russian steel giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), has announced that hot dip galvanized steel sheet sales to the Turkish domestic market increased by 66 percent, while ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, Coated Steel
The government of Pakistan has announced some new tax measures in its federal budget 2014-15, introducing 10 percent customs duty on flat rolled silicon and alloy steel imports to bring them to a par with flat rolled products of non- alloy ...
Tags: Import Duty, Alloy Flat Steel
Ternium is considering installing a second line at its Tenigal plant to supply products for the automotive market that are currently being supplied by imports, said Máximo Vedoya, President of Ternium Mexico. He stressed that the ...
Tags: Tenigal Plant, Ternium
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) commended Senators Brown (D-OH) and Sessions (R-AL) Wednesday for their appeal to President Obama to formulate a national strategy to address the trade-distorting practice of currency ...
Tags: Iron, Steel, Chinese Currency Manipulation