Cold Rolled Imports by Port & Country of Origin

This is one of an expanded series of analyses, exclusive to Steel Market Update that is designed to provide a much more comprehensive view of actual flat rolled steel imports by product, volume, port of arrival and country of origin. This series of reports includes hot rolled, cold rolled, hot dipped galvanized (HDG) and other metallic coated, (mainly Galvalume). We will publish these in the same format in four consecutive issues of the Steel Market Update. All volumes are in short tons. In Tables 1 and 2 the smaller volume sources have been removed to make the tables more readable however, the totals are correct.

Total CR sheet tonnage in July was 109,951, down from 113,496 tons in June and, down 8.3 percent from July last year. Table 1 shows the detail by port of entry and country of origin for the July tonnage. The Great Lakes region received the most tonnage at, 37,130 with 14,599 tons into Detroit and 11,100 tons into Chicago. The Pacific Coast and Mexican border were a close 2nd and 3rd with 22,079 and 21,310 tons respectively.