US Imports of Steel Mill Products
FROM CHINA
Entered Customs Value in Thousands of US Dollars
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'C & A' = Carbon and Alloy products, 'S' = Stainless products

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All Steel Mill   Products
All Steel Mill Products $22,044 $91,381 $139,648 $298,890 $328,747 $497,039 $165,968 $90,756 $145,077
Carbon and Alloy Products
All Carbon and Alloy Products $18,522 $75,103 $117,110 $259,348 $250,148 $424,756 $148,478 $60,371 $100,191
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A $1.490 $9,220 $7,892 $38,048 $21,384 $34,094 $5,247 $9,784 $13,828
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A $21.21 $4,992 $3,620 $18,160 $9,702 $13,733 $2,507 $3,600 $10,781
Wire Drawn -- C & A $2,445 $5,290 $7,582 $11,111 $11,600 $13,956 $7,927 $10,264 $11,363
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A $51.71 $188.3 $1,752 $3,229 $7,326 $30,157 $2,876 $2,423 $10,870
Sheets & Strip All Other Metallic Coat -- C & A $3.135 $1.632 $220.2 $2,978 $4,631 $6,801 $1,229 $3,730 $6,660
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A $417.3 $1,431 $5,359 $10,312 $11,150 $10,195 $5,701 $5,476 $9,001
Line Pipe -- C & A $1,500 $2,519 $5,128 $21,375 $26,066 $41,483 $10,266 $2,868 $4,944
Tin Free Steel -- C & A . . . . . $2.213 $1,611 $2,194 $3,255
Rails All Other -- C & A $4.009 $41.02 $69.68 $688.9 $3,448 $3,118 $888.4 $747.9 $1,758
Tool Steel -- C & A $506.0 $1,713 $4,595 $4,028 $3,878 $6,419 $2,206 $4,101 $6,430
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A $0.248 $3.350 $15.42 $199.1 $46.41 $93.13 $17.91 $150.2 $1,700
Standard Pipe -- C & A $2,977 $11,899 $18,371 $29,526 $34,898 $9,481 $3,857 $1,113 $3,017
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A $38.23 $390.3 $1,489 $5,005 $8,018 $1,630 $890.8 $1,386 $2,594
Tin Plate -- C & A $1.460 $276.6 $560.1 $1,511 $1,617 $1,124 $2,225 $2,055 $1,394
Oil Country Goods -- C & A $5,189 $9,552 $32,709 $60,306 $71,213 $228,789 $94,911 $4,457 $2,128
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A . $1.970 $34.13 $228.1 $428.2 $723.0 $311.0 $617.1 $1,592
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A $5.377 $120.4 $244.3 $1,384 $1,662 $1,790 $862.2 $659.7 $1,489
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A $147.6 $160.7 $1,104 $1,833 $1,935 $3,814 $263.0 $672.6 $1,405
Pressure Tubing -- C & A $73.31 $84.35 $223.7 $1,283 $1,113 $2,526 $1,405 $751.7 $1,187
Pipe For Piling -- C & A . $7.281 $107.1 $302.8 $870.4 $613.2 $898.9 $414.2 $668.9
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A $2.032 . $33.62 $322.3 $267.4 $503.3 $522.1 $627.3 $734.0
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A $5.107 $1,231 $2,703 $1,388 $655.4 $412.1 $343.5 $306.5 $903.6
Rails Standard -- C & A $1.463 $3.666 $2.732 $798.3 $586.9 $26.68 $30.11 $245.7 $493.3
Black Plate -- C & A $0.476 . $102.9 $302.1 $181.4 $248.3 $146.8 $272.1 $391.5
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A $12.59 $64.30 $138.9 $631.2 $519.3 $284.1 $301.7 $295.7 $572.0
Plates in Coils -- C & A . $332.7 $2.664 $47.04 $8.497 $196.7 . $45.49 $226.3
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A $1.641 $8.340 $57.93 $255.1 $610.2 $247.0 $114.6 $136.0 $297.6
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A $11.82 $101.6 $50.05 $726.9 $5,212 $202.6 $125.7 $189.0 $210.1
Railroad Accessories -- C & A $1.931 $29.69 $38.06 $43.92 $55.25 $254.9 $129.8 $64.48 $118.3
Steel Piling -- C & A $0.368 $3.988 $4.787 $6.417 $2.517 $2.863 $4.893 $59.94 $46.32
Wire Rods -- C & A $5,086 $25,351 $22,699 $42,764 $20,278 $11,669 $597.2 $577.3 $28.41
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A $1.966 $2.096 $0.867 $13.72 $49.42 $16.28 $29.88 $24.22 $20.11
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A $0.472 $12.68 $4.666 $40.03 $138.8 $18.51 $9.393 $9.364 $18.91
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A $1.498 $1.352 $0.195 $63.59 $19.53 . $10.94 $16.31 $58.68
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A $12.01 $69.70 $194.7 $437.6 $577.5 $132.5 $10.45 $36.70 $7.226
Stainless        Products
All Stainless Products $3,523 $16,277 $22,539 $39,542 $78,599 $72,283 $17,490 $30,385 $44,886
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S $933.6 $9,372 $10,061 $22,605 $36,006 $39,971 $3,886 $17,627 $22,956
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S $1,600 $4,499 $7,493 $12,553 $25,138 $14,830 $6,925 $6,147 $10,613
Plates Cut Lengths -- S $0.547 $22.93 $41.63 $259.1 $6,895 $4,007 $1,776 $874.8 $2,627
Wire Drawn -- S $552.6 $969.7 $1,783 $1,894 $2,386 $1,870 $777.1 $1,999 $2,505
Plates in Coils -- S . $7.251 $68.42 $549.0 $1,446 $1,951 $183.0 $347.8 $1,712
Line Pipe -- S . . . . $728.1 $268.6 $526.5 $61.59 $1,578
Wire Rods -- S $159.3 $536.6 $691.6 $717.0 $709.1 $809.1 $125.8 $290.3 $575.1
Bars-Cold Finished -- S $116.2 $490.9 $1,920 $489.9 $699.7 $613.6 $238.1 $427.9 $862.9
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S $108.3 $104.5 $142.3 $222.8 $238.6 $543.6 $140.6 $805.4 $441.2
Bars-Hot rolled -- S $11.28 $46.87 $130.4 $93.88 $95.54 $202.4 $38.76 $56.71 $307.7
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S . $94.48 $66.55 $94.73 $567.2 $1,100 $61.39 $1,456 $174.5
Oil Country Goods -- S . . . . $3,576 $5,917 $2,690 $171.0 $257.4
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S . $22.27 . . $1.017 . $0.454 $78.20 $122.1
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S $11.49 $59.07 $86.84 $34.29 $76.28 $147.9 $108.9 $34.85 $84.79
Bars-Light Shaped -- S $23.11 $33.46 $41.45 $18.10 $8.696 $22.71 $1.138 $0.218 $20.83
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S $0.880 $14.12 $8.737 $10.80 $28.45 $29.77 $7.704 $3.302 $21.48
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S $5.057 $4.205 $4.145 $0.624 . . $4.198 $0.428 $10.41
Structural Pipe & Tube -- S . . . . . . . $2.617 $15.99

SOURCE: US Department of Commerce, Import Administration
Table last modified on: February 10, 2012 , with
Final Census data compiled through December 2011
Data listed in order of descending volume imported during the year - 2011
Steel mill categories are defined by 10-digit HTS codes
Data extracted from the import licenses are not official Census data
 
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