Trade Cases
Track active steel trade cases, including antidumping, countervailing duties, and TRQs, with key dates and statuses.
Trade Data
SMU brings you that latest numbers on everything from trade case results to steel import and export volumes. You also won’t want to miss our analysis of apparent steel supply
Imports History
Monitor monthly US steel imports with product-level historical detail on popular flat-rolled, plate, and long products.
Exports History
Explore US steel export data with historical comparisons across relevant sheet and plate steel products.
Apparent Steel Supply
A monthly indicator of US market balance and availability, based on mill shipments, imports, and exports.
Latest news
Sheet sources laud stable demand and solid prices
Participants in the US hot- and cold-rolled sheet market cautiously called the week a win as prices inched north and demand picked up.
Plate sources eye imports, cite domestic supply concerns
Plate sources say they’re welcoming imports as domestic mill delivery delays, extended lead times, and climbing prices make fully adopting US-produced plate products unrealistic.
AMU: Pace expands plant closures, removing die-casting capacity from US network
Pace Industries plans to close two Muskegon die-casting plants following news of the planned shutdown of its Arkansas facility.
Oil and gas drilling slows in Canada, ticks higher in US
Oil and gas drilling continued to slow in Canada but remained steady in the US this past week.
Price gap between US CR, most imports narrows
Cold-rolled (CR) coil prices ticked up in the US this week, matching a similar trend seen in most offshore markets as well.
Ferrous scrap market chatter this month
Market participant comments from this month’s SMU Ferrous Scrap Survey.
Oregon Steel and SSAB aim to push plate prices higher
Oregon Steel Mills and SSAB Americas announced higher plate prices to close out the week.
SMU Scrap Survey: Current Sentiment ticks up, Future Sentiment flat
SMU’s Current Sentiment Index for scrap inched up in March, according to the latest data from our ferrous scrap survey. Meanwhile, the Future Sentiment Index remained locked at the same level for the fourth consecutive month.
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