Hot and Cold Rolled Sheet Imports by District of Entry and Source Nation, December 2018

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Finally, the detailed steel trade data has been released for December. Again, we apologize for our lack of trade reports in the last few months. August was the last detailed data that we reported. The September results should have been released in early November, but the USITC had scrapped and re-built their DataWeb and the new program didn’t work. We and no doubt others worked with them for many hours in November and December as they tried to fix the problem. Then came the government shutdown. Finally, last Friday, the December data was released and the DataWeb functioned reasonably well. Recovery from the shutdown is still not complete. At this stage in March we should have January’s results. At SMU, we still have the problem of rebuilding queries in the new DataWeb, so it will likely be another month before all our trade reports are back up and running.