US Imports of Steel Mill Products
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Quantity in Metric Tons
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'C & A' = Carbon and Alloy products, 'S' = Stainless products

Product Census Data
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YTD Jan
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2013
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March
final)
All Steel Mill   Products
All Steel Mill Products 104,357 158,795 127,994 133,565 92,386 112,060 152,023 196,931 207,006 183,584
Carbon and Alloy Products
All Carbon and Alloy Products 101,505 155,746 122,989 127,531 88,765 106,871 146,596 191,754 202,158 179,168
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A 42.2 30,638 16,013 11,543 18,235 11,877 40,295 50,933 60,232 47,882
Line Pipe -- C & A 14,380 17,731 13,076 13,741 11,684 7,757 15,671 22,733 13,524 9,178
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A 4,367 3,577 3,570 2,927 2,420 3,795 5,283 18,220 23,022 23,069
Oil Country Goods -- C & A 4,374 5,487 1,998 7,814 6,428 12,145 11,299 17,571 14,033 12,170
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A 10,358 10,695 12,030 13,858 6,591 12,396 13,296 17,543 16,488 17,416
Rails Standard -- C & A 10,808 15,108 15,102 14,073 12,069 13,487 13,231 14,264 23,280 21,117
Wire Rods -- C & A 8,430 8,172 9,243 8,703 5,037 9,262 9,648 9,403 10,434 8,605
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A 6,241 8,735 5,880 5,197 4,636 6,653 7,063 8,419 7,400 11,453
Wire Drawn -- C & A 5,082 4,292 4,640 4,104 2,390 4,154 3,244 4,793 4,457 3,979
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A 2,538 2,854 2,933 3,651 1,760 1,559 2,069 4,570 1,968 2,967
Tool Steel -- C & A 4,215 3,140 2,598 3,733 903.4 2,586 3,093 2,530 2,422 2,659
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A 937.2 1,831 2,797 2,559 2,062 3,254 2,691 2,356 3,598 2,436
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A 728.5 1,174 2,142 3,668 2,775 4,335 2,899 2,227 2,481 2,004
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A 390.9 1,660 1,745 1,278 502.1 793.8 1,438 2,172 2,081 1,158
Black Plate -- C & A 1,471 3,738 1,397 841.7 1,747 1,600 1,589 2,154 2,462 2,336
Sheets & Strip All Other Metallic Coat -- C & A 704.7 820.7 821.9 1,053 1,266 2,432 2,634 2,008 2,438 2,862
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A 3,359 3,137 2,867 2,954 1,699 1,616 2,195 1,944 1,969 1,509
Tin Free Steel -- C & A 1,755 1,717 1,885 2,103 833.9 1,136 2,002 1,669 2,534 1,742
Plates in Coils -- C & A 1,735 1,133 1,218 1,177 962.9 1,523 1,590 1,637 1,672 571.9
Standard Pipe -- C & A 1,886 1,331 1,990 2,291 2,123 1,208 2,454 1,499 2,430 1,132
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A 1,488 6,206 1,358 2,936 873.1 408.6 853.1 1,133 880.2 1,653
Rails All Other -- C & A 174.9 154.1 101.3 356.2 342.8 454.5 335.1 517.4 573.9 291.6
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A 420.7 1,145 1,020 1,440 276.1 487.4 656.3 445.2 651.2 371.9
Tin Plate -- C & A 567.7 226.2 224.1 214.6 247.1 244.2 306.7 235.7 201.9 48.3
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A 545.7 484.6 448.3 388.8 154.7 265.8 208.3 221.5 314.8 159.4
Pressure Tubing -- C & A 257.5 460.6 368.6 309.0 98.6 104.4 183.8 184.0 237.1 180.9
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A 430.7 550.3 563.3 487.5 113.6 192.7 155.6 149.5 162.6 74.6
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A 12.2 44.3 249.4 49.5 60.7 110.4 94.6 108.9 70.1 94.1
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A 62.1 134.6 167.4 205.0 224.4 189.2 66.1 45.4 59.8 28.2
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A . 0.84 . 1.76 0.71 0.52 23.1 30.4 . .
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A 964.3 2,197 1,857 979.4 1.23 . 9.78 17.2 29.9 11.8
Steel Piling -- C & A 0.36 0.54 0.99 47.6 23.2 . 9.03 8.75 35.0 .
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A 12,553 16,795 12,028 12,638 0.77 830.0 . 1.72 6.91 .
Pipe For Piling -- C & A 216.0 363.9 646.3 195.8 213.6 2.77 0.16 . . .
Stainless        Products
All Stainless Products 2,852 3,049 5,005 6,034 3,621 5,188 5,427 5,176 4,848 4,416
Oil Country Goods -- S . . 1,943 2,787 1,982 2,405 2,127 1,986 1,555 1,343
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S 466.7 886.1 716.2 1,290 570.0 1,385 1,312 1,243 1,193 1,712
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S 1,452 996.0 922.0 724.0 459.0 532.3 710.9 814.2 893.4 422.9
Plates Cut Lengths -- S 129.5 236.2 327.7 346.4 165.6 332.3 498.1 555.2 574.1 514.7
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S 305.7 363.4 475.6 184.6 68.6 85.8 253.4 150.8 188.9 88.2
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S 338.7 331.9 361.4 415.3 164.8 274.2 223.6 141.2 137.5 152.9
Wire Drawn -- S 86.3 77.8 94.4 116.6 88.9 122.1 107.9 118.7 121.8 113.5
Plates in Coils -- S 0.10 11.8 24.7 3.17 13.9 2.17 89.8 96.3 62.2 9.33
Line Pipe -- S . . 44.0 6.83 68.7 0.91 38.2 33.2 83.4 36.0
Bars-Cold Finished -- S 19.8 34.9 18.8 21.6 13.7 14.2 9.00 8.11 6.47 9.43
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S 11.7 47.2 25.8 13.5 4.57 10.2 11.8 7.33 6.10 4.69
Bars-Light Shaped -- S 5.37 13.7 11.1 77.2 10.1 5.53 2.82 7.32 2.77 .
Wire Rods -- S 17.8 19.4 8.44 8.37 1.15 6.36 8.16 5.67 9.92 3.23
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S 6.98 21.1 12.5 33.3 5.34 7.04 6.22 2.61 7.99 .
Bars-Hot rolled -- S 9.44 4.72 9.97 2.52 2.13 2.56 3.31 2.44 . 0.78
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S . . . . 0.26 . 21.1 2.32 . .
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S 1.88 4.49 9.40 2.47 1.78 1.64 1.72 0.79 3.18 4.58

SOURCE: US Department of Commerce, Import Administration
Table last modified on: May 2, 2013 , with
Final Census data compiled through March 2013
Data listed in order of descending volume imported during the year - 2012
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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