SAS Output

US Imports of Steel Mill Products
FOR Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S
Quantity in Metric Tons
Same Table - US Dollars		Same Table - Average Unit Value
'C & A' = Carbon and Alloy products, 'S' = Stainless products

Graph	Country	Census Data													License Data
		SEP08	OCT08	NOV08	DEC08	JAN09	FEB09	MAR09	APR09	MAY09	JUN09	JUL09	AUG09	SEP09	OCT09	NOV09
M	WORLD	6,550	9,982	7,354	7,728	6,542	7,057	4,879	4,586	5,066	5,527	4,300	4,611	3,881	5,087	2,913
M	UNITED KINGDOM	3,431	5,654	3,726	3,500	3,280	4,604	3,020	2,506	3,807	3,188	2,629	3,801	2,409	2,661	1,398
M	SWEDEN	1,703	3,059	2,239	2,103	2,191	1,908	1,585	1,375	1,092	1,128	1,132	538.4	1,229	2,087	657.0
M	ITALY	976.1	440.0	932.1	1,247	701.7	70.2	123.5	409.9	88.0	400.9	336.6	178.5	154.2	286.4	788.3
M	SLOVENIA	.	3.82	129.0	113.9	85.1	.	.	16.7	47.3	.	117.9	.	23.9	.	.
M	SPAIN	182.7	436.4	122.3	686.9	96.4	407.8	90.0	206.7	.	768.5	59.0	45.7	.	38.4	36.0
M	MEXICO	19.4	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	20.0	.	39.4	38.6	.	8.66
M	CHINA	4.63	9.34	4.09	26.5	36.2	7.48	2.13	5.13	2.39	2.98	2.17	3.76	11.5	10.3	9.94
M	TAIWAN	10.9	11.2	1.08	.	3.13	7.56	1.91	11.1	3.68	11.6	2.63	2.30	8.07	0.08	.
M	VIETNAM	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	8.78	.	2.40	.	.
M	GERMANY	163.4	48.5	25.9	32.5	138.3	19.6	11.3	.	10.2	5.32	9.76	.	.	0.61	.
M	CZECH REPUBLIC	.	8.55	4.55	2.92	.	0.37	1.20	0.13	0.79	0.79	0.64	0.84	1.15	0.33	.
M	CANADA	0.83	0.94	1.53	2.73	8.22	30.2	25.5	37.3	1.94	.	0.61	0.63	0.90	.	6.84
M	JAPAN	3.45	0.53	0.71	.	0.53	1.37	5.80	7.35	1.52	.	.	.	1.53	1.79	.
M	FRANCE	.	.	.	.	.	.	12.9	.	.	.	.	0.16	.	.	.
M	AUSTRIA	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	9.59	4.19	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	BELGIUM	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.25
M	INDIA	.	0.06	40.8	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	IRELAND	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.00
M	NETHERLANDS	.	.	116.5	1.70	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	NORWAY	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	8.28
M	SINGAPORE	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.14	.
M	SOUTH AFRICA	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	7.05	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	SWITZERLAND	.	.	.	2.49	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	UKRAINE	53.9	308.7	10.6	6.70	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	UNITED STATES	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.10	.

SOURCE: US Department of Commerce, Import Administration

Table last modified on: November 17, 2009, with

Licensing data collected through November 17, 2009 and

Final Census data compiled through September 2009

Data listed in order of descending volume imported during last THREE months of census data,including preliminary data

Steel mill categories are defined by 10-digit HTS codes

Data extracted from the import licenses are not official Census data