SAS Output

US Imports of Steel Mill Products
FOR Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A
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													Preliminary Census Data	License Data
		OCT07	NOV07	DEC07	JAN08	FEB08	MAR08	APR08	MAY08	JUN08	JUL08	AUG08	SEP08	OCT08	NOV08	NOV08	DEC08
M	WORLD	12,789	20,199	11,185	16,460	11,816	16,408	13,605	12,348	15,978	14,973	11,293	9,647	8,697	4,281	6,797	4,637
M	CANADA	9,044	7,681	6,152	9,866	8,836	6,903	9,126	8,650	8,909	7,900	4,800	6,206	4,852	3,270	3,324	2,887
M	MEXICO	2,031	4,422	4,410	2,861	1,856	2,513	3,811	2,790	2,604	6,962	5,811	3,067	3,798	942.2	837.5	1,478
M	CHINA	448.3	308.4	53.5	160.4	72.5	62.2	16.7	357.3	82.3	106.5	288.8	259.6	16.7	30.6	38.0	20.3
M	KOREA	260.7	322.7	237.0	.	.	17.3	.	.	90.0	.	.	100.9	.	.	.	.
M	BRAZIL	980.8	344.8	3.29	.	622.8	3,510	526.5	547.0	345.3	3.90	2.75	.	9.82	20.1	21.7	6.02
M	UNITED KINGDOM	.	.	17.0	.	.	.	19.9	.	.	.	.	.	20.5	.	.	.
M	AUSTRIA	.	.	.	18.2	.	0.75	.	2.99	.	.	.	3.88	.	14.5	.	0.02
M	ITALY	.	.	.	.	2.75	.	.	.	.	.	.	5.71	.	.	0.34	0.31
M	PERU	.	3,298	.	.	.	.	.	.	1,080	.	.	.	.	2.23	2.23	.
M	TURKEY	.	432.2	.	.	151.9	323.5	94.8	.	.	.	384.2	1.99	.	.	.	165.1
M	GERMANY	.	.	.	.	.	.	9.45	1.19	.	.	.	.	.	1.08	1.08	77.4
M	INDIA	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.61	.	.	.	.
M	ARGENTINA	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.27	0.09
M	AUSTRALIA	22.8	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	BELGIUM	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.29
M	FRANCE	.	.	2.16	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.14
M	JAPAN	.	3,017	.	3,554	.	2,767	.	.	2,867	.	.	.	.	.	2,564	.
M	NETHERLANDS	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	6.53	.	.	.	.	.
M	SPAIN	.	.	.	.	.	308.8	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.00	.
M	SWITZERLAND	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.33	.
M	TAIWAN	.	370.6	309.1	.	273.6	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	UNITED STATES	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	6.98	2.56

SOURCE: US Department of Commerce, Import Administration

Table last modified on: January 6, 2009, with

Licensing data collected through January 6, 2009 and

Preliminary Census data compiled through November 2008

Data listed in order of descending volume imported during last THREE months of Census data, including peliminary data

Steel mill categories are defined by 10-digit HTS codes

Data extracted from the import licenses are not official Census data