US steel mill shipments up 1.7 percent in January 2026 from December

Thursday, 05 March 2026 09:32:53 (GMT+3)   |   San Diego

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has reported that in the month of January 2026, US steel mills shipped 7,583,826 net tons, a 2.0 percent increase from the 7,435,458 net tons shipped in January 2025.

Shipments were up 1.7 percent from the 7,454,338 net tons shipped in the previous month, December, 2025.

A comparison of  January 2026 shipments to the month of January 2025 shows the following changes: corrosion resistant sheet and strip, up 11 percent, hot rolled sheet and strip, up 1 percent and cold rolled sheet, down 13 percent.

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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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