Galvanized Imports by Port & Country of Origin

Hot dipped galvanized imports July and YTD 2013 by source and port of entry: This is one of an expanded series of analyses, exclusive to the Steel Market Update that is designed to provide a much more comprehensive view of actual volume by product. This will enable a steel buyer or manager to see exactly what came into his immediate vicinity and where it came from. This series of reports includes hot rolled, cold rolled, 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 and ports of entry have been removed to make the tables more readable.

Total HDG import tonnage in July was 130,750 up by 9.4 percent from June’s volume of 119,475 tons but down by 24.5 percent from July last year. Table 1 shows the detail by port of entry and country of origin. Over half of the July HDG tonnage came in through the Great Lakes ports. The Gulf ports received 29,874 tons making them a distant second. Canada was by far the largest source with over half the total, China was second with 18,217 tons followed by Korea with 11,906 tons. The Chinese tonnage mainly entered through Los Angeles and Houston with most of the Korean tonnage entering through Mobile (SMU note: We assume the Mobile Korean tonnage is going to Kia/Hyundai). See Table 2 here.