As far as the US goes - we have almost NO steel industry left. There are 7 steel smelters left in this country as of 2013 [*1]. Our scrap gets bundled into bails and shipped off to another country to be turned into raw stock, which is shipped off to some were else to be turned into consumables which are than imported back to the US.
7??? When I look at the the steel dot org map (steelplant_north america 2013) I see a whole lot more than seven melt shops in the united states. where did you get that number from? it is obviously wrong.
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