US Imports of Steel Mill Products
FROM CHINA

Quantity in Metric Tons
Same Table - US Dollars

Same Table - Average Unit Value
'C & A' = Carbon and Alloy products, 'S' = Stainless products

Graph Product Census Data License Data
  DEC10 JAN11 FEB11 MAR11 APR11 MAY11 JUN11 JUL11 AUG11 SEP11 OCT11 NOV11 DEC11 JAN12 FEB12
All Steel Mill   Products
M All Steel Mill Products 58,404 53,325 44,550 61,527 88,417 117,192 146,960 142,437 109,253 99,013 106,017 75,991 79,667 88,174 50,793
Carbon and Alloy Products
M All Carbon and Alloy Products 46,305 41,961 34,049 53,317 75,375 104,702 130,146 127,148 98,311 89,501 97,746 67,154 71,217 79,850 47,545
M Flat Products -- C & A 14,301 19,472 13,183 27,100 44,829 61,746 76,808 84,272 47,980 43,306 47,756 33,445 33,190 43,867 28,368
M Long Products -- C & A 20,997 13,340 12,706 14,534 16,855 32,271 27,852 24,758 38,172 22,005 21,224 20,794 20,173 22,379 14,013
M Pipe and Tube -- C & A 10,737 8,959 8,056 11,454 13,003 9,885 24,997 17,055 11,652 23,891 28,020 11,754 17,121 13,261 4,744
M Semi-Finished -- C & A 268.6 188.7 103.4 228.9 686.0 799.1 487.6 1,062 507.1 297.8 745.4 1,160 731.8 341.8 419.2
Stainless        Products
M All Stainless Products 12,099 11,364 10,501 8,209 13,042 12,490 16,813 15,288 10,941 9,512 8,270 8,836 8,450 8,323 3,247
M Flat Products -- S 9,858 9,148 7,697 5,896 10,045 9,506 12,763 12,357 7,308 6,672 5,572 5,801 5,007 4,755 2,070
M Pipe and Tube -- S 1,266 1,225 1,865 1,425 1,652 1,841 2,573 1,838 2,394 1,758 1,724 1,791 2,360 2,458 823.1
M Long Products -- S 969.7 984.9 924.5 879.0 1,328 1,114 1,469 1,089 1,227 1,077 954.4 1,208 1,052 1,083 350.3
M Semi-Finished -- S 5.25 5.07 13.4 8.38 16.0 28.6 7.38 4.00 10.2 4.03 18.5 34.7 30.1 27.4 3.16

SOURCE: US Department of Commerce, Import Administration
Table last modified on: February 10, 2012, with
Licensing data collected through February 10, 2012 and
Final Census data compiled through December 2011
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
To see License Data at HTS 6-digit level click on chart title at the top of the page.
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