US steel mill shipments up 10.9 percent in March 2026 from February

Wednesday, 06 May 2026 16:51:33 (GMT+3)   |   San Diego

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has reported that in the month of March 2026, US steel mills shipped 8,204,611 net tons, a 6.2 percent increase from the 7,725,314 net tons shipped in March 2025.

Shipments were up 10.9 percent from the 7,395,507 net tons shipped in the previous month, February 2026.

Shipments January-March 2026 are 23,183,944 net tons, up 4.4 percent compared to shipments of 22,197,305 net tons in the first three months of 2025.

A comparison of shipments year-to-date in 2026 to the first three months of 2025 shows the following changes: corrosion resistant sheet and strip, up 13 percent, hot rolled sheet and strip, up 4 percent and cold rolled sheet and strip, down 6 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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