According to preliminary census data released this week by the US Department of Commerce, the US imported 188,084 mt of cold rolled coil (CRC) in August, a 3.5 percent increase from July and an 8.7 percent increase from August 2015.
The top sources for imported CRC in August were Vietnam, with 56,701 mt (up 82 percent month-on-month and up significantly from the 21.6 mt imported in August 2015); Canada, with 33,732 mt (up 28 percent month-on-month and up 13 percent year-on-year); and Mexico, with 19,036 mt (down 0.7 percent month-on-month but up 44.4 percent year-on-year).