A cewar rahotannin kafofin watsa labarai na ƙasashen waje, masana'antun ƙarfe na Amurka Nucor, Cleveland Cliffs da kuma masana'antar ƙarfe ta North Star ta BlueScope Steel Group da ke Amurka za su zuba jari sama da dala biliyan 1 wajen sarrafa tarkace a shekarar 2021 don biyan buƙatun kasuwannin cikin gida da ke ƙaruwa a Amurka.
An ruwaito cewa samar da ƙarfe a Amurka zai ƙaru da kusan kashi 20% a shekarar 2021, kuma masu yin ƙarfe a Amurka suna neman wadataccen kayan aiki daga motocin da aka lalata, bututun mai da aka yi amfani da su da kuma sharar masana'antu. Dangane da faɗaɗa ƙarfin samar da tan miliyan 8 daga shekarar 2020 zuwa 2021, ana sa ran masana'antar ƙarfe ta Amurka za ta faɗaɗa ƙarfin samar da ƙarfe mai faɗi na ƙasar da kusan tan miliyan 10 nan da shekarar 2024.
An fahimci cewa ƙarfen da aka samar ta hanyar narkar da ƙarfen da aka yi amfani da shi a cikin tanderun lantarki a halin yanzu yana samar da kusan kashi 70% na jimillar ƙarfe da aka samar a Amurka. Tsarin samarwa yana samar da ƙarancin hayakin carbon dioxide fiye da narkar da ƙarfe a cikin tanderun da aka yi amfani da shi ta hanyar kwal, amma kuma yana ƙara matsin lamba ga kasuwar sharar Amurka. A cewar ƙididdiga daga kamfanin tuntuba na Metal Strategies da ke Pennsylvania, siyan sharar da masu yin ƙarfe na Amurka suka yi ya karu da kashi 17% a watan Oktoba na 2021 idan aka kwatanta da shekara guda da ta gabata.
A cewar kididdiga daga World Steel Dynamics (WSD), zuwa karshen shekarar 2021, farashin karafa na Amurka ya tashi da matsakaicin kashi 26% a kowace tan idan aka kwatanta da wannan lokacin a shekarar 2020.
"Yayin da masana'antun ƙarfe ke ci gaba da faɗaɗa ƙarfin EAF ɗinsu, albarkatun tarkace masu inganci za su yi ƙaranci," in ji Philip Anglin, Shugaba na World Steel Dynamics.