The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Monday that for the month of April 2013, US steel mills shipped 7,978,531 net tons (nt), a 0.7 percent increase from the 7,922,265 nt shipped in the previous month, March 2013, and a 3.2 percent decrease from the 8,245,339 nt shipped in April 2012. Shipments year-to-date (YTD) in 2013 are 31,547,910 nt, a 6.3 percent decrease compared with 2012 shipments of 33,663,439 nt for the first four months of the year.
A comparison of April shipments to the previous month of March shows the following changes: cold rolled sheet shipments were up 10 percent; hot dipped galvanized sheets and strip shipments rose 5 percent and hot rolled sheet shipments were down 4 percent.