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
Community Chat: Contractors still optimistic, but less so than a year ago
The construction market is seeing activity from data centers and the energy infrastructure to support them. But other factors are dragging the sector down: The Iran war is spiking inflation; tariffs are driving up material costs; and immigration crackdowns are hurting labor.
Apparent steel supply slipped in February
Apparent steel supply declined 3% from January to February to the third-lowest rate recorded in the past two years, just 5% above the near-five-year low set last November.
Commerce foresees heavy dumping recurring in NOES sunset review
The Commerce Department has determined that allowing anti-dumping and countervailing duties on non-oriented electrical steel (NOES) imports from a handful of countries to expire would result in continued dumping and subsidization at significant levels.
Rocky Mountain Steel inks 7-year deal with Union Pacific Railroad
Rocky Mountain Steel Mills has signed a new seven-year contract with Union Pacific Railroad for the domestic production of steel rails.
AMU: What Toyota’s $1B US investment could mean for aluminum
Toyota Motor Corp.’s $1 billion investment in its Kentucky and Indiana plants aims to expand production of aluminum-intensive vehicles, particularly across high-volume models and future battery electric platforms.
US, Canadian weekly rig counts continue to decline
The US and Canadian oil and gas rig counts inched lower this past week, according to the latest Baker Hughes data.
Plate sources say uncertain market conditions persist
Factors like fluctuating demand, import availability, domestic product lead times, fuel surcharges, and end-user consumption left plate sources feeling unsettled.
Sheet sources are optimistic amidst mixed conditions
Participants in the hot- and cold-rolled coils market are optimistic about the market’s health.
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