SMU Report: CR Sheet Imports by Product Detail Through August

Premium subscribers to Steel Market Update receive reports on imports broken down into district of entry and source nation. This report takes the regional analysis to the level of product detail. Our intent is to report on HR and CR sheet in alternate months in the rationale that the finer the detail steel buyers have about what is 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 it breaks out four thickness ranges and identifies how much was full hard, annealed and high strength. Finally, this analysis is taken to the district of entry level. Only 0.6 percent of total CR sheet imports are leveled. Total year-to-date sheet and strip imports through June were 1,007,095 and 28,065 metric tons, respectively.