Business Segment and Geographic Area Information (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2013

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Table Text Block]

The Company’s only business segment is the sale and distribution of metals. Sales are attributed to countries based on location of customers as follows:

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2013		2012		2013		2012
United States	$	80,213	$	105,607	$	164,151	$	205,325
Latin America		4,561		13,181		25,962		25,460
Canada		12,468		12,809		24,655		28,655
Australia & New Zealand		9,810		9,524		21,478		22,485
Europe		3,416		4,571		7,652		9,376
	$	110,468	$	145,692	$	243,898	$	291,301

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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