Steel Products Prices North America
March 3, 2016
Analysis of Cold Rolled Imports & Who is Taking China's Place
Written by John Packard
With the US Department of Commerce making their initial (preliminary determination) ruling on antidumping (AD) we thought our readers might enjoy a deeper dive into understanding cold rolled exports out of the seven countries affected by the ruling.
We decided to begin looking at CR imports beginning in 2010, which was one of the years which was deeply impacted by the Great Recession and the collapse of the steel market in 2009. As the U.S. economy came back so did the amount of CR being exported to the U.S. It is our opinion that two factors, the high selling prices in the United States coupled with the weak economies elsewhere in the world, led to imports taking a higher percentage of the U.S. market.
