The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that for the month of January 2018, US steel mills shipped 7,636,321 net tons, a 4.2 percent increase from the 7,328,247 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2017, and a 0.9 percent decrease from the 7,708,416 net tons shipped in January 2017.
A comparison of January shipments to the previous month of December shows the following changes: hot dipped galvanized sheet and strip, up 11 percent; cold rolled sheets, up 9 percent; and hot rolled sheets, up 3 percent.