SAS Output

US Imports of Steel Mill Products
FOR Rails Standard -- 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	18,377	13,251	7,119	11,695	21,208	21,969	20,281	23,311	12,177	28,244	16,699	9,752	18,272	18,321	19,160	8,248
M	JAPAN	2,707	12,032	796.4	11,320	15,179	21,055	18,957	17,825	11,419	23,059	11,331	8,366	11,211	12,361	12,264	6,795
M	CZECH REPUBLIC	9,653	208.0	5,156	.	5,514	16.9	554.3	4,690	88.2	4,687	4,505	842.4	5,742	5,362	5,798	100.2
M	LUXEMBOURG	20.7	86.4	172.2	172.0	154.0	414.4	446.6	60.6	400.3	82.7	639.3	449.7	963.2	248.8	768.7	704.4
M	MEXICO	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	505.6	.	.	.	.	84.7	175.6	175.6	.
M	GERMANY	151.0	0.73	.	.	.	18.0	.	.	33.4	108.0	58.6	58.6	149.7	39.1	19.5	172.1
M	SPAIN	68.5	185.5	234.3	184.9	352.2	286.7	56.1	104.3	63.0	184.1	145.8	.	121.6	66.6	66.6	105.5
M	KOREA	157.0	737.6	466.4	.	.	.	.	.	.	44.1	.	21.2	.	66.9	66.9	43.8
M	CANADA	405.6	.	.	.	5.64	146.0	129.1	124.7	81.5	15.5	.	10.9	.	.	.	77.5
M	CHINA	5,061	.	68.0	17.1	.	.	136.6	.	34.8	58.3	.	3.51	.	.	.	245.2
M	AUSTRIA	151.7	.	225.7	.	2.55	25.9	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	NETHERLANDS	.	.	.	.	.	6.44	.	.	55.9	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	UNITED KINGDOM	.	.	.	.	.	.	1.00	.	.	3.79	18.6	.	.	.	.	4.00
M	UNITED STATES	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.01	0.03

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