Steel Prices
Nucor lifts list price for spot HRC by $20/ton
Written by Laura Miller
June 9, 2025
Nucor raised its published weekly spot price for hot-rolled (HR) coil by $20 per short ton (st) on Monday.
The $20/st increase applies to all of the steelmaker’s sheet mills, including its West Coast joint-venture, California Steel Industries (CSI).
This puts Nucor’s consumer spot price (CSP) for HR coil at $890/st this week and CSI’s at $950/st.
Nucor had lowered the CSP throughout May, closing the month at $870/st. The company maintained the price at that level last week – even on the heels of the Trump administration doubling Section 232 tariffs on imported steel to 50%.
You can track mill price announcements on our website here.
In last week’s market check, SMU assessed spot HR coil prices at $780-910/st, averaging $845/st FOB mill, east of the Rockies, according to our interactive pricing tool.
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