This week's HRC social inventory was 2.8415 million mt (down 54,400 mt WoW, down 1.88% WoW, down 9.79% YoY, down 2.78% YoY on a lunar calendar basis).
This week's HRC in-plant inventory was 1.1436 million mt (down 37,900 mt WoW, down 3.21% WoW, down 2.57% YoY, up 1.09% YoY on a lunar calendar basis).
This week's total HRC inventory was 3.9851 million mt (down 92,400 mt WoW, down 2.27% WoW, down 7.83% YoY, up 1.31% YoY on a lunar calendar basis).

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