Steel Products Prices North America
July 12, 2017
Regional Analysis of Sheet Steel Imports Through May 2017
Written by Peter Wright
We believe that misinformation (or lack of) about regional import volumes is often used to influence purchase decisions. Our intent with this analysis of tonnage by district of entry is to describe in detail what is going on in a company’s immediate neighborhood and thus provide a negotiating advantage for our premium subscribers.
We are now publishing monthly data in the Imports/Exports section of our website that breaks down the tonnage of the four major sheet products (hot rolled, cold rolled, hot-dipped galvanized, and other metallic coated) into the port of entry and country of origin in metric tons through April. This data set is large; therefore, we will make no attempt to provide a commentary. Each reader’s interest will be different and he/she simply needs to select one of the four products, then find the nearest port or ports of entry to see how much came into their region each month and from where. It is clear from these detailed reports that the growth of tonnage entering a particular district in many cases is completely different to the change in volume at the national level.
