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
Leibowitz: Steel producers need imports too—especially of pig iron
Downstream consumers of steel account for many times the employment in steel production. Yet the tariff manufacturers in the federal government have paid scant attention to the needs of most manufacturers.
US steel exports stabilized in May at low levels
Steel exports eased 1% in May and remain significantly lower than trade of previous years.
Aluminum Dynamics sets Mississippi site for relocated recycled slab center
Aluminum Dynamics plans to invest more than $200 million to develop a recycled slab center in Lowndes County, Miss., establishing the permanent location for a project relocated from Arizona earlier this year.
Oil and gas rig counts rise in US and Canada
Drilling activity ticked higher this week in both the US and Canada, according to recently released rig count data from Baker Hughes.
SMU Steel Summit 2026: Who’s driving change—and what’s to come?
We’re just a few days away from initiating an official 30-day countdown until SMU Steel Summit 2026 in Atlanta.
Liberty Steel temporarily furloughs workers at Illinois wire rod mill
Liberty Steel workers at its Bartonville, Ill., facility face furloughs after an industry downturn, according to a media report.
HR buyers foresee bullish market through the second half of 2026
Some hot-rolled coil market participants said they’re optimistic that the market will remain strong throughout the rest of the year.
Orion Steel taps Ptacek as president
Orion Steel has appointed Todd Ptacek as its new president.
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