I'm from Ga. I've just bought some 2"x2"x1/4" angle yesterday and it was $2.35/ft.
I also got a letter from my steel supplier and they said there is going to be another price increase
May 1st.they said the increase will exeed $100.00 a ton for all products.  
                                                                                   gawelder  
                                                                                                                                                                                

Three weeks ago I locked in a price for 300K pounds of A36M plate @$58.00 per 100 at 4PM. Price the next morning was $65.00 per 100. Customer had 72 hours to accept the offer and waited. Last week the customer called and decided they wanted to go with the project. Called supplier and it was $72.00 per 100.

Someone handed me a Wall Street Journal clipping last week saying that coking coal prices are rumoured to have tripled recently, and iron ore is up 65%.  This is international pricing; they didn't talk much about U.S. producers, other than that prices are up in the U.S. because less steel is being imported here.  The difference was reported in dollars, but it's more than can be blamed on the falling dollar.  They're predicting a 10% rise in the cost of steel, though that's peanuts compared to what happened in 2004.  If you're buying steel from outside the U.S., the exchange rate is probably hurting you too.

And here we go again.

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