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

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2011
All Steel Mill   Products
All Steel Mill Products 933,065 1,279,630 1,252,290 1,905,551 1,535,939 1,602,788 1,108,633 1,344,720 1,824,282
Carbon and Alloy Products
All Carbon and Alloy Products 908,939 1,255,362 1,218,061 1,868,959 1,475,869 1,530,374 1,065,180 1,282,459 1,759,155
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A 30,389 51,179 506.8 367,659 192,161 138,526 218,831 142,534 483,544
Line Pipe -- C & A 126,112 131,339 172,567 212,775 156,923 164,902 140,214 93,089 188,059
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A 102,961 107,116 124,307 128,349 144,361 166,300 79,095 148,754 159,562
Rails Standard -- C & A 111,842 164,735 129,707 181,303 181,228 168,885 144,833 161,852 158,777
Oil Country Goods -- C & A 36,478 53,069 52,498 65,852 23,985 93,778 77,138 145,743 135,594
Wire Rods -- C & A 88,079 93,861 101,170 98,071 110,916 104,438 60,452 111,154 115,779
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A 43,747 75,741 74,898 104,825 70,560 62,368 55,636 79,840 84,757
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A 23,432 39,321 52,415 42,931 42,843 35,134 29,046 45,545 63,405
Wire Drawn -- C & A 76,536 72,352 60,987 51,505 55,688 49,248 28,688 49,851 38,930
Tool Steel -- C & A 58,180 45,085 50,581 37,683 31,185 44,801 10,841 31,038 37,125
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A 7,395 9,703 8,742 14,096 25,706 44,023 33,308 52,031 34,794
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A 23,929 13,748 11,247 21,979 33,571 30,719 24,747 39,052 32,300
Sheets & Strip All Other Metallic Coat -- C & A 11,136 9,127 8,457 9,849 9,862 12,643 15,197 29,195 31,613
Standard Pipe -- C & A 13,210 19,163 22,634 15,982 23,891 27,496 25,487 14,502 29,458
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A 28,161 29,067 40,311 37,649 34,407 35,451 20,399 19,401 26,345
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A 18,624 22,822 30,466 34,258 35,202 43,822 21,130 18,719 24,831
Tin Free Steel -- C & A 11,512 20,014 21,064 20,610 22,624 25,246 10,007 13,636 24,030
Plates in Coils -- C & A 1,814 16,785 20,820 13,602 14,616 14,133 11,555 18,287 19,085
Black Plate -- C & A 20,357 28,084 17,652 44,860 16,771 10,101 20,966 19,210 19,073
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A 2,023 127.5 4,691 19,924 20,946 15,341 6,025 9,526 17,259
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A 15,606 35,116 17,862 74,475 16,296 35,233 10,477 4,903 10,237
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A 5,117 6,910 5,048 13,740 12,240 17,283 3,313 5,849 7,875
Rails All Other -- C & A 3,184 1,358 2,098 1,849 1,216 4,275 4,113 5,454 4,021
Tin Plate -- C & A 1,831 6,028 6,813 2,715 2,689 2,575 2,966 2,931 3,681
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A 5,049 5,659 6,548 5,815 5,379 4,665 1,857 3,189 2,499
Pressure Tubing -- C & A 4,572 5,377 3,090 5,528 4,423 3,709 1,183 1,252 2,206
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A 2,270 4,661 5,169 6,604 6,760 5,850 1,363 2,313 1,868
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A 340.1 411.7 147.4 532.4 2,992 594.1 729.1 1,325 1,136
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A 831.9 889.3 746.3 1,615 2,009 2,460 2,692 2,270 793.8
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A 5.56 25.3 . 10.0 . 21.1 8.58 6.30 278.0
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A . 3,713 11,572 26,375 22,289 11,753 14.8 . 117.4
Steel Piling -- C & A 351.1 5.55 4.32 6.50 11.9 571.9 279.0 . 108.3
Pipe For Piling -- C & A 527.8 1,842 2,592 4,367 7,756 2,350 2,563 33.3 2.00
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A 33,322 180,906 150,637 201,551 144,342 151,664 9.25 9,960 .
Railroad Accessories -- C & A . 6.44 . . . . . . .
Stainless        Products
All Stainless Products 24,126 24,267 34,229 36,592 60,069 72,414 43,453 62,261 65,126
Oil Country Goods -- S . . . . 23,317 33,447 23,784 28,864 25,532
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S 1,000 1,357 5,601 10,634 8,595 15,490 6,840 16,625 15,755
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S 10,139 9,057 17,425 11,953 11,064 8,689 5,509 6,388 8,531
Plates Cut Lengths -- S 2,327 2,224 1,555 2,834 3,933 4,157 1,987 3,988 5,978
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S 3,647 5,412 3,668 4,361 5,707 2,215 823.9 1,029 3,041
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S 4,035 3,745 4,064 3,982 4,337 4,983 1,978 3,290 2,683
Wire Drawn -- S 1,093 1,048 1,036 933.6 1,133 1,399 1,067 1,465 1,295
Plates in Coils -- S 517.5 169.7 1.24 142.5 296.5 38.1 167.9 26.0 1,078
Line Pipe -- S . . . . 528.4 82.0 824.8 11.0 459.1
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S 30.6 119.6 . . . . 3.18 . 254.1
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S 16.7 43.0 140.9 566.6 310.4 162.6 54.8 123.3 142.2
Bars-Cold Finished -- S 425.2 436.2 237.8 419.8 226.2 259.3 164.4 171.1 108.0
Wire Rods -- S 262.7 262.6 214.5 232.8 101.3 100.4 13.8 76.3 97.9
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S 231.7 185.3 83.7 254.0 150.8 400.1 64.1 84.5 74.6
Bars-Hot rolled -- S 15.9 31.9 113.2 56.7 119.6 30.3 25.6 30.7 39.8
Bars-Light Shaped -- S 190.0 75.3 64.4 165.2 134.0 927.2 121.8 66.3 33.8
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S 191.4 98.9 22.6 53.8 112.8 29.6 21.3 19.7 20.7

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
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