Key finished steel products with a significant increase in imports in September compared to August are heavy structural shapes (up 114%), hot rolled sheets (up 41%), plates in coils (up 28%), sheets and strip all other metallic coatings (up 19%), tin plate (up 11%) and sheets and strip hot dipped galvanized (up 10%).

In September the largest volumes of finished steel imports from offshore were from South Korea (124,000 NT, up 11% from August final), Taiwan, China (58,000 NT, up 73%), Japan (57,000 NT, up 28%), Germany (52,000 NT, up 3%) and The Netherlands (33,000 NT, down 10%). For the first nine months of 2020, the largest offshore suppliers were South Korea (1,519,000 NT, down 26% vs. the same period in 2019), Japan (586,000 NT, down 42%), Germany (525,000 NT, down 37%), Taiwan, China (463,000 NT, down 37%) and Turkey (427,000 NT, up 65%).

Source: AISI

 

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