US steel mill shipments down 2.5 percent in February 2026

Friday, 03 April 2026 01:42:23 (GMT+3)   |   San Diego

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has reported that in the month of February 2026, US steel mills shipped 7,395,507 net tons, a 5.1 percent increase from the 7,035,936 net tons shipped in February 2025.

Shipments were down 2.5 percent from the 7,583,826 net tons shipped in the previous month, January.

Shipments January-February 2026 are 14,979,333 net tons, up 3.5 percent compared to shipments of 14,471,991 net tons in the first two months of 2025.

A comparison of shipments year-to-date in 2026 to the first two months of 2025 shows the following changes: corrosion resistant sheet and strip, up 10 percent, hot rolled sheet and strip, up 9 percent and cold rolled sheet and strip, down 8 percent.

BerkArslan
Berk Arslan
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I graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago with a B.S. in Finance, and also have Masters degree from Northeastern Illinois University in Bilingual Bicultural Education and a Masters from Moody Bible Institute in Divinity. I have been in the steel industry since 2019, focusing on long products.  I now write on finished longs in Mexico, and cover market analysis and dynamics in North America.


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