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Regional Imports, Hot Rolled Coil, Through June

August 12, 2019

Year to date, June, total hot rolled coil imports were down by 28.2 percent, but the Great Lakes region was down by 38.4 percent and the Atlantic North was up by 21.3 percent.

SMU now offers a comprehensive series of import reports ranging from the first look at licensed data to the very detailed look at volume by district of entry and source nation. The report you are reading now is designed to plug the gap between these two. Our intention is to report regional imports for six flat rolled products every other month. This month we are reporting through June.

Figure 1 shows the year-to-date tonnage into each region and the huge variation between them. Figure 1a presents the same data as a pie chart.

Figure 2 shows the year-to-date change for each of seven regions and the change at the national level. Volume declined this year through June in all regions except the Atlantic North and the Gulf.

Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 show the history of HRC coil imports by region since March 2013 on a three-month moving average basis. Note, the Y axis scales are not the same.