US Imports of Steel Mill Products
FROM WORLD
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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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final)
All Steel Mill   Products
All Steel Mill Products 2,274,013 2,471,017 1,748,247 2,707,055 2,427,369 3,422,587 2,513,171 2,413,643 2,452,963 1,189,611
Carbon and Alloy Products
All Carbon and Alloy Products 2,203,397 2,399,910 1,687,841 2,630,673 2,353,570 3,336,187 2,421,234 2,331,027 2,366,493 1,145,210
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A 460,883 645,295 348,475 544,359 508,088 691,775 491,158 440,624 487,261 95,205
Oil Country Goods -- C & A 69,009 37,004 57,340 83,817 125,655 157,342 141,364 295,075 238,272 142,906
Line Pipe -- C & A 101,959 85,682 71,557 82,714 90,376 150,595 222,269 243,387 247,234 125,606
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A 180,905 292,516 174,015 320,082 238,099 381,300 201,270 206,841 221,291 119,892
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A 111,496 159,996 118,298 224,090 175,341 275,767 152,001 137,735 141,576 79,373
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A 108,874 120,720 115,061 129,814 123,478 120,153 97,587 109,776 108,557 44,605
Wire Rods -- C & A 223,216 259,805 161,301 282,191 186,513 228,097 114,164 90,988 88,398 46,716
Plates in Coils -- C & A 52,641 71,674 39,767 85,567 75,731 128,539 74,522 89,663 83,311 54,177
Standard Pipe -- C & A 86,781 82,436 74,573 97,678 99,013 121,687 107,188 89,237 88,148 47,370
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A 68,712 60,679 40,849 65,283 79,566 121,162 100,293 88,498 87,209 39,059
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A 215,065 125,206 80,392 167,133 120,856 243,712 109,326 81,505 82,645 71,912
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A 132,919 96,479 77,036 144,913 107,683 195,607 140,679 73,388 90,126 35,945
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A 74,312 54,486 41,196 46,753 47,812 78,341 64,049 54,375 62,228 29,573
Wire Drawn -- C & A 49,569 55,577 54,601 68,298 61,374 64,605 57,457 50,370 54,801 31,970
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A 37,617 40,698 40,387 46,503 54,421 62,853 53,565 45,883 44,856 27,648
Sheets & Strip All Other Metalic Coat -- C & A 20,041 24,958 23,501 35,453 35,888 55,907 45,750 37,966 39,482 22,977
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A 33,996 29,268 30,516 41,267 42,707 53,317 51,143 36,853 40,779 20,035
Tin Plate -- C & A 28,582 21,149 23,501 27,327 32,560 41,203 39,246 24,272 22,717 22,972
Rails Standard -- C & A 15,388 15,909 10,833 16,289 15,405 22,620 22,165 18,003 18,371 19,387
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A 20,283 16,559 16,281 20,431 26,800 24,281 19,076 16,743 16,854 10,440
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A 13,284 13,867 9,161 8,747 12,220 14,616 15,075 14,171 14,341 7,889
Tool Steel -- C & A 11,798 11,758 13,550 13,557 15,973 13,293 12,119 12,295 12,824 4,214
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A 12,773 13,187 14,127 17,670 18,163 22,905 17,619 11,900 13,614 6,305
Pressure Tubing -- C & A 6,011 7,867 5,370 8,045 7,916 8,348 9,162 10,733 10,437 4,917
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A 10,140 9,710 9,140 10,102 11,103 11,600 11,883 9,693 10,099 6,850
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A 8,263 5,358 6,084 6,553 6,242 6,718 8,360 9,138 8,934 5,396
Tin Free Steel -- C & A 12,260 8,739 6,204 8,372 7,688 9,050 9,262 8,016 8,487 5,776
Steel Piling -- C & A 12,021 12,044 7,594 8,640 7,860 8,095 8,317 7,935 8,178 3,488
Rails All Other -- C & A 1,674 1,190 1,328 1,599 1,687 3,163 7,561 6,519 6,193 2,219
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A 4,491 7,423 7,424 8,028 7,702 5,999 6,619 3,564 3,863 3,296
Black Plate -- C & A 11,160 7,472 3,540 4,858 3,037 6,351 3,670 1,767 1,972 3,466
Pipe For Piling -- C & A 1,590 1,146 829.0 719.6 1,799 2,949 3,106 1,441 1,094 1,236
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A 2,061 1,728 1,468 1,238 1,228 1,437 1,738 1,302 1,301 1,049
Railroad Accessories -- C & A 885.9 1,088 729.5 629.1 831.5 843.6 1,179 923.1 742.7 611.5
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A 2,720 1,219 1,797 1,935 2,740 1,942 1,275 430.6 283.7 711.4
Stainless        Products
All Stainless Products 70,615 71,107 60,405 76,381 73,799 86,399 91,937 82,616 86,470 44,401
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S 17,143 19,288 19,780 28,458 24,153 33,070 26,839 27,281 30,555 12,422
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S 7,019 6,299 7,197 8,995 10,163 11,834 13,089 10,602 10,679 6,826
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S 21,102 19,839 11,656 13,879 10,669 9,440 9,306 8,660 8,762 5,161
Bars-Cold Finished -- S 5,982 5,342 4,257 5,149 7,694 7,127 7,040 6,810 7,075 4,386
Oil Country Goods -- S . . . . . . 5,598 5,342 3,898 3,759
Plates Cut Lengths -- S 2,467 3,047 1,952 2,549 3,564 5,059 7,189 5,024 5,365 2,198
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S 2,314 2,598 3,106 3,270 3,108 3,197 3,136 3,436 3,677 1,914
Wire Drawn -- S 2,351 2,502 2,593 3,173 3,314 3,690 3,516 3,243 3,379 2,248
Bars-Hot rolled -- S 1,831 1,429 1,099 1,641 1,890 2,178 2,425 2,638 2,823 1,318
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S 1,288 1,220 969.1 1,281 1,164 2,430 1,676 2,569 2,677 858.0
Plates in Coils -- S 1,450 1,967 2,123 2,639 2,741 3,446 3,747 2,042 2,298 908.0
Wire Rods -- S 4,562 4,065 2,466 3,132 2,966 2,182 2,124 1,953 2,064 873.9
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S 2,147 2,219 2,179 713.3 1,381 1,399 1,455 1,675 1,692 559.1
Bars-Light Shaped -- S 723.9 1,028 836.5 1,127 576.0 812.8 464.5 712.4 764.1 472.7
Line Pipe -- S . . . . . . 3,861 290.4 359.7 310.2
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S 172.3 228.2 157.2 236.5 125.0 234.9 226.8 198.0 221.2 96.4
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S 57.8 28.8 30.8 130.8 285.4 293.2 234.9 133.7 173.8 86.2

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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