Regional Imports Through October: Other Metallic Coated Sheet

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 Gulf, which accounted for 46.2 percent of the total.

Year to date through October, total other metallic coated coil imports were down by 14.2 percent, but the Great Lakes was up by 108.8 percent and the Atlantic North by 72.5 percent. The Great Lakes tonnage has been increasing steadily for almost two years as the Gulf volume has declined.  

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 other metallic coated coil 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.