Regional Imports Through October: Coiled Plate

This month, we are reporting through October. These six reports are intended to be reference documents with very few specific comments. The charts tell the whole story. Our intent is to provide buyers and sellers with an understanding of what is going on in their region of operation. 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. By far the highest volume region in 2019 YTD October was the Great Lakes, which accounted for 66.2 percent of the total. The Gulf was in second place at 22.2 percent, but volume into the Gulf has declined drastically in the five months including October.  

Year to date through October, total coiled plate imports were down by 23.4 percent and decreased in all regions, but by very different amounts. The Rio Grande was down by 66.8 percent and the Gulf down by 3.6 percent.

Figure 2 shows the year-to-date change for each of seven regions and the change at the national level

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

Regions are compiled from the following districts (we will report on tonnage by district and source nation next month):

Atlantic North—Baltimore, Boston, New York, Ogdensburg, Philadelphia, Portland ME, St. Albans and Washington, D.C.
Atlantic South—Charleston, Charlotte, Miami, Norfolk and Savannah.
Great Lakes—Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Duluth, Great Falls, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Pembina.
Gulf—Houston, New Orleans, Mobile, San Juan, St. Louis and Tampa.
Pacific North—Anchorage, Columbia Snake, San Francisco and Seattle.
Pacific South—Los Angeles and San Diego.
Rio Grande Valley—Laredo and El Paso.