New SMU Report Identifies CR Sheet Imports by Product Detail

Premium subscribers to Steel Market Update receive reports on imports broken down into district of entry and source nation. This new report from SMU takes the analysis to the product detail level. Our rationale is that the more information steel buyers have about product coming into their region, the better job they can do of negotiating with suppliers.

Using U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) data, SMU has taken the import tonnage of cold rolled sheet and broken it down into coil and leveled, then breaks it out into four thickness ranges and identifies how much is full hard, annealed and high strength. Finally, this analysis is taken to the district-of-entry level. This report does not include strip. Total year-to-date sheet and strip imports through April were 554,763 and 15,576 metric tons, respectively.