Trade Cases
January 12, 2016
The Numbers: Hot Rolled Imports from Brazil, Turkey & Korea
Written by John Packard
We thought our readers might find it interesting to review the past four years worth of imports from the three countries mentioned in the countervailing (CVD) duty preliminary determination just released by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The numbers in the table below are net tons and are annualized (yes, Brazil only shipped 4,467 tons of hot rolled into the U.S. during calendar year 2012).
Both Turkey and Brazil have become much larger players with Brazil having the highest percentage of growth from 2014 to 2015.
