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    Galvanized Imports by Port & Country

    Written by Peter Wright


    This is one of an expanded series of analyses, exclusive to the Steel Market Update that is designed to provide a much more comprehensive view of actual volume of steel imports by product. This will enable a steel buyer or manager to see exactly what flat rolled steel came into his immediate vicinity and where it came from. This series of reports includes hot rolled, cold rolled, hot dipped galvanized and other metallic coated, (mainly Galvalume). We will publish these in the same format in four consecutive issues of the Steel Market Update. All volumes are in short tons.  In the future, this information and the data behind it will be available to our Premium members on our new website.

    In tables 1 and 2 the smaller volume sources and ports of entry have been removed to make the tables more readable.

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