SAS Output

US Imports of Steel Mill Products
FOR Oil Country Goods -- 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													Preliminary Census Data	License Data
		OCT07	NOV07	DEC07	JAN08	FEB08	MAR08	APR08	MAY08	JUN08	JUL08	AUG08	SEP08	OCT08	NOV08	NOV08	DEC08
M	WORLD	3,798	3,267	3,245	3,831	2,439	2,182	2,428	5,428	4,013	4,656	5,081	5,022	6,739	11,502	11,114	16,629
M	CHINA	232.6	869.0	1,018	897.8	268.0	837.6	585.9	3,089	2,360	1,428	899.7	1,569	2,884	7,485	3,048	11,402
M	JAPAN	3,403	2,278	2,207	2,811	2,056	1,267	1,802	2,249	1,531	3,140	3,436	2,815	3,546	2,767	4,109	3,829
M	INDIA	.	.	.	.	0.85	.	.	.	.	3.90	698.7	3.90	217.9	1,212	.	103.0
M	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	128.4	.	.	111.2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	313.2	.	.	.	.
M	BRAZIL	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	249.6	.	.	.	.
M	UNITED KINGDOM	14.8	57.3	17.1	4.54	80.3	10.6	8.75	10.5	36.4	57.4	14.0	23.7	46.4	7.47	6.98	27.2
M	CANADA	11.5	63.2	.	5.86	13.1	6.72	30.9	0.14	81.5	26.4	31.8	33.2	2.43	29.4	85.7	.
M	ITALY	0.10	0.11	0.07	.	0.04	.	0.13	.	.	0.17	.	0.08	40.5	0.11	0.41	.
M	SINGAPORE	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	10.6	.	.	.	.
M	GERMANY	.	.	.	0.22	0.40	.	.	.	.	.	.	3.38	.	.	0.18	.
M	SPAIN	.	.	.	.	8.44	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.83	.	.	.
M	ARGENTINA	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	137.0
M	AUSTRIA	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	41.3	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	CZECH REPUBLIC	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.06	.	.	.	.	.
M	DENMARK	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.28	.
M	FRANCE	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	94.1
M	GREECE	3.74	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	KOREA	.	.	.	.	.	57.0	.	38.0	3.65	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	MEXICO	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.29	.
M	NORWAY	2.95	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	RUSSIA	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.69	.	.	.	.	.
M	SWEDEN	.	.	1.71	.	11.7	.	.	.	0.18	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	TAIWAN	.	.	.	.	.	2.24	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	UNITED STATES	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	3,861	1,035

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