January Steel Shipments up 5.8 Percent From January 2018

March 11, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported today that for the month of January 2019, U.S. steel mills shipped 8,079,757 net tons, a 3.5 percent increase from the 7,804,093 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2018, and a 5.8 percent increase from the 7,636,321 net tons shipped in January 2018.

A comparison of January shipments to the previous month of December shows the following changes: cold rolled sheet, up 7 percent, hot dipped galvanized sheet and strip, up 5 percent, and hot rolled sheets, up 3 percent.

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