Hot Rolled Imports by Product Detail, Through June 2019

Table 1 is a monthly summary and year-to-date 2019 for each of the above conditions.

Figure 1 breaks the year-to-date tonnage down commercial HR sheet, pickled and oiled, high strength and sheet with embossed patterns.

Figure 2 breaks the year-to-date tonnage down into three gauge ranges—light, medium and heavy.

Figure 3 breaks hot rolled sheet imports into coiled and leveled tonnage

Figure 4 breaks hot rolled strip imports into coiled and leveled tonnage

Using the combination of SMU import reports, steel buyers know exactly how much hot rolled came into both their region and their immediate district and where it came from. At the national level they know what the tonnage by gauge was, how much was pickled and oiled, how much was high strength and how much had patterns in relief.

Note: This data was accessed through the USITC database. All steel traded globally is classified by the Harmonized Tariff System (HTS). The HTS code has 10 digits. The first six are globally universal. The last four are used at the discretion of the nations involved in a particular transaction and are the basis of this report. The way the U.S. uses the last four digits to define products may be different from other nations’ product classification.