US Imports of Steel Mill Products
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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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2009
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September
final)
All Steel Mill   Products
All Steel Mill Products 155,208 123,348 77,755 106,635 104,357 158,795 127,994 133,565 135,389 93,465
Carbon and Alloy Products
All Carbon and Alloy Products 152,819 121,713 75,744 104,613 101,505 155,746 122,989 127,531 129,718 90,075
Rails Standard -- C & A 11,400 11,204 9,320 13,727 10,808 15,108 15,102 14,073 15,390 12,285
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A 8,600 7,895 8,580 8,926 10,358 10,695 12,030 13,858 14,676 5,086
Line Pipe -- C & A 10,022 20,841 10,509 10,944 14,380 17,731 13,076 13,741 12,830 11,286
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A 29,222 21,190 2,776 15,075 12,553 16,795 12,028 12,638 15,026 1.02
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A 12,043 3,324 2,532 4,264 42.2 30,638 16,013 11,543 12,668 19,718
Wire Rods -- C & A 9,584 9,493 7,339 7,821 8,430 8,172 9,243 8,703 8,699 4,543
Oil Country Goods -- C & A 5,913 3,031 3,039 4,422 4,374 5,487 1,998 7,814 4,353 7,324
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A 19,131 6,085 3,645 6,311 6,241 8,735 5,880 5,197 5,034 4,611
Wire Drawn -- C & A 5,225 6,439 6,378 6,029 5,082 4,292 4,640 4,104 4,457 1,974
Tool Steel -- C & A 4,336 4,131 4,848 3,757 4,215 3,140 2,598 3,733 3,882 1,063
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A 1,413 930.6 616.2 808.6 728.5 1,174 2,142 3,668 3,337 3,097
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A 2,428 4,232 1,552 1,901 2,538 2,854 2,933 3,651 3,507 1,949
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A 4,514 4,097 2,346 2,422 3,359 3,137 2,867 2,954 2,943 1,986
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A 1,488 1,748 1,300 2,926 1,488 6,206 1,358 2,936 3,045 1,069
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A 2,517 1,551 1,952 3,276 4,367 3,577 3,570 2,927 2,646 2,262
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A 3,287 2,311 1,994 1,145 937.2 1,831 2,797 2,559 2,841 2,287
Standard Pipe -- C & A 2,814 2,854 1,100 1,596 1,886 1,331 1,990 2,291 2,478 2,290
Tin Free Steel -- C & A 4,466 1,085 959.3 1,667 1,755 1,717 1,885 2,103 1,965 845.3
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A 1,648 1,314 426.4 575.8 420.7 1,145 1,020 1,440 1,568 243.8
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A 1,228 1,277 168.6 10.6 390.9 1,660 1,745 1,278 1,631 406.3
Plates in Coils -- C & A 438.9 168.5 151.1 1,398 1,735 1,133 1,218 1,177 1,302 758.9
Sheets & Strip All Other Metalic Coat -- C & A 140.1 232.6 928.0 760.6 704.7 820.7 821.9 1,053 929.2 1,265
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A . 3.79 . 309.4 964.3 2,197 1,857 979.4 1,020 1.64
Black Plate -- C & A 7,667 4,056 1,696 2,340 1,471 3,738 1,397 841.7 990.9 2,219
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A 749.2 243.5 189.2 388.4 430.7 550.3 563.3 487.5 604.0 110.2
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A 489.2 320.7 420.7 471.6 545.7 484.6 448.3 388.8 388.8 148.3
Rails All Other -- C & A 275.1 216.7 265.3 113.2 174.9 154.1 101.3 356.2 466.8 422.9
Pressure Tubing -- C & A 253.5 621.3 381.0 448.0 257.5 460.6 368.6 309.0 360.5 113.0
Tin Plate -- C & A 386.1 393.2 152.6 502.3 567.7 226.2 224.1 214.6 198.8 142.7
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A 92.8 96.1 69.3 74.1 62.1 134.6 167.4 205.0 219.1 192.8
Pipe For Piling -- C & A 339.8 64.8 43.9 153.5 216.0 363.9 646.3 195.8 141.0 283.8
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A 5.16 35.2 28.3 34.3 12.2 44.3 249.4 49.5 44.7 48.8
Steel Piling -- C & A 72.5 11.9 29.2 0.46 0.36 0.54 0.99 47.6 63.5 31.0
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A 620.1 208.6 0.46 2.11 . 0.84 . 1.76 2.35 0.56
Railroad Accessories -- C & A . . . 0.53 . . . . . .
Stainless        Products
All Stainless Products 2,388 1,634 2,010 2,022 2,852 3,049 5,005 6,034 5,670 3,389
Oil Country Goods -- S . . . . . . 1,943 2,787 2,345 1,908
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S 32.2 91.1 83.3 113.1 466.7 886.1 716.2 1,290 1,248 390.9
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S 1,089 347.3 844.9 754.7 1,452 996.0 922.0 724.0 704.5 494.5
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S 376.5 330.9 336.2 312.0 338.7 331.9 361.4 415.3 443.6 158.8
Plates Cut Lengths -- S 230.6 306.0 193.9 185.3 129.5 236.2 327.7 346.4 369.1 155.9
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S 196.7 180.1 303.9 451.0 305.7 363.4 475.6 184.6 221.7 57.3
Wire Drawn -- S 126.7 93.8 91.1 87.3 86.3 77.8 94.4 116.6 128.6 82.2
Bars-Light Shaped -- S 6.43 10.6 15.8 6.27 5.37 13.7 11.1 77.2 102.9 11.7
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S 27.1 31.1 19.3 15.4 6.98 21.1 12.5 33.3 39.9 7.13
Bars-Cold Finished -- S 23.6 25.5 35.4 36.3 19.8 34.9 18.8 21.6 25.4 12.7
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S 4.40 7.27 1.39 3.58 11.7 47.2 25.8 13.5 16.7 4.17
Wire Rods -- S 74.0 60.6 21.8 21.8 17.8 19.4 8.44 8.37 7.28 1.15
Line Pipe -- S . . . . . . 44.0 6.83 7.46 87.7
Plates in Coils -- S 99.5 101.1 43.1 14.1 0.10 11.8 24.7 3.17 4.23 13.2
Bars-Hot rolled -- S 95.4 39.7 1.32 2.66 9.44 4.72 9.97 2.52 1.58 1.47
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S 5.56 7.58 15.9 8.24 1.88 4.49 9.40 2.47 3.16 2.01
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S 0.01 1.40 2.55 9.97 . . . . . 0.35

SOURCE: US Department of Commerce, Import Administration
Table last modified on: November 17, 2009 , with
Final Census data compiled through September 2009
Data listed in order of descending volume exported during the year - 2008
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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