According to preliminary data from the US Department of Commerce, monthly steel imports to the US in August this year increased by 7.2% compared to July and amounted to 29.8% year-on-year and amounted to 2.21 million tons. In value terms, U.S. steel imports totaled $2.1 billion in August, compared with $2 billion in July and $1.8 billion in August last year.
The main sources of steel imports to the United States in August are South Korea (388,894 tons), Brazil (318,671 million tons), Canada (268,097 million tons) and Mexico (230,093 million tons)..
By product group, imports of semi-finished products totaled 720,240 tons in August, compared with 625,704 tons in July and 408,630 tons in August 2025. Imports of flat rolled products in August totaled 587,908 tons, compared with 448,436 tons in July and 570,504 tons in August 2025. Imports of rolled products in August amounted to 431,548 tons, down from 477,565 tons in July and up from 313,019 tons in July. Last August. Pipe imports in August amounted to 390,270 thousand tons, down from 432,164 thousand tons in July and up from 330,767 thousand tons in August 2025.
According to the American Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy, the share of imports in the American steel market in 2012 was estimated at 17.5 percent. In August and by 16% in the first eight months of this year
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