January Steel Shipments Down 1.4 Percent From Prior Month

March 10, 2022

Up 4.5 Percent from January 2021 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported today that for the month of January 2022, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,757,672 net tons, a 1.4 percent decrease from the 7,871,639 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2021, and a 4.5 percent increase from the 7,420,816 net tons shipped in January 2021.

A comparison of January 2022 shipments to the month of January 2021 shows the following changes: corrosion-resistant sheet and strip, up 1 percent, hot rolled sheet, up 1 percent and cold rolled sheet, down 7 percent.

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