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Steel: U.S. Strong Despite Global Oversupply

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Steel: U.S. Strong Despite Global Oversupply Overview: The U.S. steel industry has been a developing, positive theme in 2016. Steel impacts the industrial metals components of VanEck's actively and passively managed natural resources strategies. As of March 31, 2016, steel-related companies accounted for approximately $250 million of the firm's assets under management.

Steel: U.S. Strong Despite Global Oversupply Overview: The U.S. steel industry has been a developing, positive theme in 2016. Steel impacts the industrial metals components of VanEck’s actively and passively managed natural resources strategies. As of March 31, 2016, steel-related companies accounted for approximately $250 million of the firm’s assets under management.

The global steel industry is oversupplied and is facing significant headwinds. 2015 was arguably a turbulent year for the industry, given these major negatives: China’s economic slowdown, falling prices, and a glut of foreign steel imports into the U.S. (mainly from China).

Despite the negative view for the global steel industry, we believe that the U.S. steel industry has bottomed and unique investment opportunities exist. Thus far in 2016, the U.S. steel industry has performed well, and, we believe, there are further compelling upside opportunities. In short, we see these positive signs: (1) a continuation of a strengthening U.S steel price environment (Chart A); (2) fundamentally better operating and financial conditions via improved capacity utilization (Chart B); and (3) the potential for an industry-wide multiple rerating, which has not occurred in a long time.

Chart A: U.S. Steel Prices Rebound in 2016 ($/ton)

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Source: CRU, Morgan Stanley Research. HRC represents ”hot rolled coil”; CRC is ”cold rolled coil”; and HDG is ”hot dipped galvanized steel.” All represent types of steel. Data as of 4/30/2016.

Chart B: U.S. Steel Industry Operating Conditions/Rates (% Capacity Utilization)

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Source: AISI, Morgan Stanley. Capacity utilization is a metric used to measure the rate at which potential output levels are being met or used; this chart demonstrates improvement thus far in 2016. Data as of 4/30/2016.

Flood of Supply from China

The global steel industry is oversupplied, with about 33% idle spare capacity. During the period from 2012 to 2015, global steel production increased from 1,554 million metric tons (mmt) per annum to 1,667 mmt per annum, a 113 mmt (or 7.3%) jump, of which 94 mmt came from new capacity in China.

The magnitude of this increase in global supply is best understood when stacked against demand. The U.S. is the world’s third largest consumer of steel, with a 120 mmt to 130 mmt per annum market, while the European Union is the second largest market at 140 mmt to 150 mmt per annum. (China is both the world’s largest consumer and producer.)

China’s Overcapacity Problem

China’s demand for steel began to wane just at the time that the country began aggressively increasing its domestic production. The net result was that steel once destined for the Chinese domestic market found its way onto the export market with Chinese exports increasing from 42 mmt per annum in 2012 to 100 mmt per annum in 2015 (see Chart C).

Chart C: China’s Net Steel Exports

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Source: VanEck, Bloomberg. Data as of 4/30/2016.

Predictably, the increase in Chinese steel export volumes depressed international steel export prices. This placed significant price pressure on domestic steel prices in countries that are large importers of steel, such as the U.S.

U.S. Steel Prices’ 2015 Collapse

At the end of 2015, steel (hot rolled coil) exports from China traded at $250/ton and imports into the U.S. reached record highs of 30% of demand, compared with a more normalized level of 18% to 20%. With cheaper imported steel flooding the U.S. market, domestic prices collapsed from $480/ton to around $370/ton (-23%) between July 2015 and January 2016.

These low prices (last seen during the 2008/2009 global financial crisis) threw the U.S. steel industry into a crisis of reduced orders, idle mills, and significant layoffs. To protect itself, the industry turned to trade protection measures to help combat low-priced imports. The Leveling the Playing Field Act, passed in 2015, seeks to maintain a fair marketplace for U.S. steelmakers as it restores and strengthens anti-dumping rules and countervailing duties.

As a result, in March 2016 the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that both government subsidies and dumping were occurring and accordingly levied tariffs in the range of 282% to 493%. These are more than enough to lock out Chinese steel from the U.S. market.

Upside Potential for U.S. Steel Prices

Looking out post the implementation of these policies, we expect current U.S. domestic steel prices to have additional upside. We believe that the price of domestic steel could improve because: (1) the removal of ”dumped and government subsidized” steel from the domestic market will normalize the mix between domestic supply and imports; (2) inventories will be drawn down; and (3) upward pressure on raw material prices, such as coking coal and iron ore, will continue.

However, looking ahead to 2017, we do expect the market to soften as higher prices translate into increased supply either from the U.S. domestic market (U.S. steel utilization rate is around 74%) or from increased imports. Finally, the strong automotive and non-residential markets alone are not sufficient to offset a potential increase in U.S domestic supply and so a resurgence in demand from other industries, such as the energy industry, will be required.

Trade Protection Taking Shape

In conclusion, although the U.S steel industry has performed well to date in 2016, we believe the opportunity has more near-term upside potential as the enforcement of all trade protection laws is still in its early stages. As authorities eventually implement these policies for steel, it would not be surprising to see additional trade protection announcements being made covering other key U.S. commodities.

Charl Malan

by Charl Malan, Senior Analyst

Malan has more than 20 years of industry experience and is a member of the Hard Assets Team that manages VanEck’s Natural Resources Equity strategy. Malan specializes in base and industrial metals, and also serves on the gold and precious metals team. Read full bio.

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Referensindex nyckelfunktioner

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USD-noterade obligationer emitterade av den amerikanska staten

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