US Imports of Steel Mill Products
FROM WORLD
Quantity in Metric Tons
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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 20,978,967 32,484,663 29,128,435 41,071,051 30,158,061 28,963,723 14,709,927 21,708,178 25,868,630
Carbon and Alloy Products
All Carbon and Alloy Products 20,254,097 31,568,080 28,242,844 40,034,253 29,054,813 27,972,331 14,149,974 20,859,361 24,861,005
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A 4,181,706 6,532,319 6,097,056 8,301,303 5,893,900 5,287,496 1,764,619 4,457,353 5,904,724
Oil Country Goods -- C & A 688,087 1,005,808 1,507,867 1,888,115 1,696,379 3,540,908 1,411,725 2,128,415 2,608,372
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A 2,088,191 3,840,989 2,857,196 4,575,603 2,415,251 2,482,092 1,565,583 2,143,391 2,381,455
Line Pipe -- C & A 858,690 992,572 1,084,514 1,807,141 2,667,232 2,920,645 1,451,181 1,350,474 1,781,715
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A 1,419,578 2,689,086 2,104,100 3,309,204 1,824,012 1,652,823 937,162 1,288,824 1,326,236
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A 1,380,738 1,557,771 1,481,740 1,441,846 1,171,044 1,317,314 594,551 924,856 1,167,904
Plates in Coils -- C & A 477,205 1,026,810 908,777 1,542,478 894,270 1,075,962 631,988 887,997 1,151,652
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A 964,709 2,005,605 1,450,281 2,924,549 1,311,914 978,063 869,483 827,792 985,196
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A 490,199 783,406 954,793 1,453,949 1,203,520 1,061,985 447,123 630,727 984,642
Wire Rods -- C & A 1,935,617 3,386,293 2,238,163 2,737,164 1,369,976 1,091,866 680,681 1,175,813 899,200
Standard Pipe -- C & A 894,885 1,172,145 1,188,157 1,460,251 1,286,260 1,070,849 538,331 705,426 754,906
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A 924,437 1,738,958 1,292,197 2,347,290 1,688,155 880,660 380,497 468,631 594,259
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A 484,644 558,041 653,059 754,240 642,784 550,600 301,784 386,275 558,251
Wire Drawn -- C & A 655,219 819,587 736,488 775,260 689,495 604,446 412,327 532,285 534,700
Sheets & Strip All Other Metallic Coat -- C & A 282,021 425,439 430,659 670,895 549,004 455,597 270,404 375,154 483,104
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A 494,352 561,040 573,746 940,096 768,598 652,505 335,607 471,585 462,802
Tin Plate -- C & A 282,021 327,926 390,723 494,439 470,962 291,275 292,979 459,432 365,603
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A 366,199 495,209 512,487 639,809 613,716 442,246 230,561 282,114 342,484
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A 195,379 245,183 321,607 291,373 228,915 200,924 117,479 169,245 251,729
Rails Standard -- C & A 130,004 195,479 184,869 271,451 265,990 216,043 225,908 229,149 228,139
Tool Steel -- C & A 162,604 162,691 191,678 159,517 145,434 147,548 51,592 122,416 155,740
Tin Free Steel -- C & A 74,457 100,464 92,264 108,604 111,147 96,201 77,894 134,449 132,382
Pressure Tubing -- C & A 64,445 96,549 94,995 100,180 109,953 128,797 56,813 77,759 120,993
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A 109,681 121,230 133,242 139,208 142,604 116,327 87,918 104,995 103,199
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A 73,008 78,641 74,915 80,621 100,327 109,658 59,523 85,545 103,131
Steel Piling -- C & A 91,133 103,691 94,324 97,144 99,810 95,229 49,350 76,899 94,478
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A 169,527 212,041 217,962 274,861 211,438 142,802 71,811 91,601 92,435
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A 109,933 104,973 146,646 175,400 180,901 170,059 84,620 90,895 87,867
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A 89,097 96,337 92,429 71,991 79,429 42,774 39,689 38,996 59,950
Rails All Other -- C & A 15,944 19,196 20,254 37,964 90,734 78,238 26,898 27,992 43,966
Black Plate -- C & A 42,480 58,303 36,445 76,214 44,045 21,211 37,738 31,399 40,190
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A 21,569 23,231 32,880 23,307 15,307 5,167 12,520 42,709 23,631
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A 17,619 14,866 14,742 17,245 20,862 15,626 12,971 21,850 17,454
Pipe For Piling -- C & A 9,948 8,636 21,595 35,399 37,274 17,302 14,342 13,693 13,242
Railroad Accessories -- C & A 8,754 7,550 9,978 10,123 14,154 11,078 6,303 3,207 5,260
Stainless        Products
All Stainless Products 724,869 916,582 885,591 1,036,797 1,103,248 991,392 559,953 848,817 1,007,624
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S 237,366 341,503 289,836 396,841 322,074 327,381 162,514 280,211 278,231
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S 86,368 107,948 121,963 142,012 157,076 127,233 81,296 99,653 115,120
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S 139,874 166,556 128,035 113,281 111,680 103,924 62,914 83,164 105,133
Bars-Cold Finished -- S 51,090 61,797 92,339 85,530 84,490 81,725 51,283 74,085 98,158
Plates in Coils -- S 25,477 31,679 32,897 41,363 44,966 24,509 12,926 39,482 82,012
Plates Cut Lengths -- S 23,434 30,591 42,777 60,719 86,278 60,290 33,884 49,077 75,629
Wire Drawn -- S 31,122 38,085 39,777 44,288 42,201 38,923 28,838 40,644 42,094
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S 37,274 39,249 37,296 38,366 37,640 41,235 23,768 39,433 41,004
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S 11,629 15,377 13,977 29,171 20,121 30,829 12,200 31,545 35,340
Bars-Hot rolled -- S 13,188 19,699 22,686 26,145 29,111 31,657 17,243 26,913 34,596
Oil Country Goods -- S . . . . 67,179 64,110 41,698 34,316 30,190
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S 26,151 8,559 16,572 16,798 17,471 20,109 7,269 18,146 27,095
Wire Rods -- S 29,596 37,593 35,592 26,185 25,499 23,444 11,855 19,648 21,691
Line Pipe -- S . . . . 46,339 3,485 3,359 1,814 9,306
Bars-Light Shaped -- S 10,038 13,533 6,913 9,754 5,574 8,549 6,351 7,154 8,323
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S 1,886 2,838 1,500 2,818 2,722 2,376 1,337 1,966 2,053
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S 370.0 1,569 3,424 3,519 2,819 1,604 1,210 1,529 1,495
Structural Pipe & Tube -- S . . . . . . . 29.3 147.6

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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