Commerce Department rolls out global steel monitor

“Timely detailed data in user-friendly formats” essential for enforcement and policy-making, says Secretary Wilbur Ross.    The Commerce Department has released the new interactive Global Steel Trade Monitor, an online tool that provides extensive trade data for the top 20 global steel importing countries and top 20 global steel exporting countries, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced Monday.
   The program will allow users to select online customized import and export flows in graphic form, as well as detailed charts, for five aggregate steel mill product groups: flat, long, pipe and tube, semifinished and stainless products.
   “Timely detailed data in user-friendly formats are essential both for enforcement and for policy determinations,” Ross said in a statement. “This interactive Global Steel Trade Monitor will strengthen U.S. companies’ and the U.S. government’s ability to track trade flows to better understand the relevant trends in this essential sector.”
   Commerce in 2016 started publishing Global Steel Trade Monitor Country-Specific Reports, which were the precursor to the new Global Steel Trade Monitor.