Steel shipments to the US rose by 6.2% m/m in May

In May this year, US steelworks increased shipments of steel products by 6.2% month-on-month to 8.14 million short tonnes, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI).

Compared with the same period last year, this figure rose by 8.5%.

In January–May, shipments totalled 38.99 million tonnes, which is 4.6% more than in the same period of 2025. Supplies of corrosion-resistant sheet and strip rose by 13% year-on-year during the period, whilst hot-rolled steel rose by 6% and cold-rolled steel fell by 1% year-on-year.

It should be noted that shipments of steel products from US steelworks rose by 4.9% in 2025 compared with 2024, reaching 90.95 million short tonnes. Compared with 2024, shipments of corrosion-resistant sheet rose by 4%, hot-rolled sheet by 1%, whilst cold-rolled sheet fell by 4 per cent.

As reported by GMK Center, the US imported 6.7 million short tonnes of rolled steel in January–May 2026, down 26.8% year-on-year. Total steel imports for the first five months of this year, including rolled steel and semi-finished products, amounted to 9.12 million tonnes (-26.3% year-on-year).

In May, total steel imports into the US reached 2.1 million tonnes, an increase of 11.2% compared with the previous month, including 1.55 million tonnes of rolled steel (+11.2% month-on-month).

The market share of imported rolled steel in May is estimated at 17%, and for the first five months of 2026 at 16%.