US Imports of Steel Mill Products
FROM CHINA
Entered Customs Value in Thousands of US Dollars
Same Table - Monthly Average Metric Tons

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Same Table - Annual Total Metric Tons

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'C & A' = Carbon and Alloy products, 'S' = Stainless products

Product Census Data
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2001
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2007
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YTD Jan
through
Aug 2007
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2008
(through
August
final)
All Steel Mill   Products
All Steel Mill Products $23,513 $21,566 $22,044 $91,381 $139,648 $298,890 $328,747 $397,147 $349,950
Carbon and Alloy Products
All Carbon and Alloy Products $21,986 $19,015 $18,522 $75,103 $117,110 $259,348 $250,148 $301,100 $267,850
Oil Country Goods -- C & A $4,238 $3,014 $5,189 $9,552 $32,709 $60,306 $71,213 $82,693 $121,502
Standard Pipe -- C & A $4,976 $538.2 $2,977 $11,899 $18,371 $29,526 $34,898 $45,655 $7,378
Wire Rods -- C & A $368.2 $7,218 $5,086 $25,351 $22,699 $42,764 $20,278 $29,607 $6,715
Line Pipe -- C & A $879.0 $1,047 $1,500 $2,519 $5,128 $21,375 $26,066 $31,688 $29,288
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A $1,016 $293.0 $1.490 $9,220 $7,892 $38,048 $21,384 $24,837 $29,614
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A $1,895 $632.1 $21.21 $4,992 $3,620 $18,160 $9,702 $10,268 $8,811
Wire Drawn -- C & A $1,708 $2,236 $2,445 $5,290 $7,582 $11,111 $11,600 $13,793 $14,357
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A $62.53 $51.23 $38.23 $390.3 $1,489 $5,005 $8,018 $10,810 $966.4
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A $336.1 $247.8 $417.3 $1,431 $5,359 $10,312 $11,150 $13,721 $5,994
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A $1,192 $20.62 $11.82 $101.6 $50.05 $726.9 $5,212 $6,250 $183.6
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A $39.33 $39.13 $51.71 $188.3 $1,752 $3,229 $7,326 $7,087 $21,135
Rails All Other -- C & A $0.637 . $4.009 $41.02 $69.68 $688.9 $3,448 $2,768 $2,681
Sheets & Strip All Other Metalic Coat -- C & A . $1.395 $3.135 $1.632 $220.2 $2,978 $4,631 $5,780 $3,783
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A $2,114 $701.1 $147.6 $160.7 $1,104 $1,833 $1,935 $1,531 $2,929
Tin Plate -- C & A $496.2 $131.6 $1.460 $276.6 $560.1 $1,511 $1,617 $1,712 $1,319
Pipe For Piling -- C & A . . . $7.281 $107.1 $302.8 $870.4 $1,155 $274.3
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A $71.39 $19.80 $5.377 $120.4 $244.3 $1,384 $1,662 $1,362 $1,124
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A $519.6 $2,218 $5.107 $1,231 $2,703 $1,388 $655.4 $808.5 $332.2
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A $99.26 $17.92 $12.01 $69.70 $194.7 $437.6 $577.5 $813.3 $144.9
Rails Standard -- C & A $7.078 $3.212 $1.463 $3.666 $2.732 $798.3 $586.9 $503.3 $30.78
Pressure Tubing -- C & A $33.98 $31.82 $73.31 $84.35 $223.7 $1,283 $1,113 $1,398 $1,221
Tool Steel -- C & A $610.1 $316.4 $506.0 $1,713 $4,595 $4,028 $3,878 $4,071 $6,234
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A $5.026 $1.418 $12.59 $64.30 $138.9 $631.2 $519.3 $691.5 $347.5
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A $99.54 $36.47 $1.641 $8.340 $57.93 $255.1 $610.2 $697.4 $237.2
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A $428.8 $107.8 $2.032 . $33.62 $322.3 $267.4 $213.5 $310.9
Black Plate -- C & A $25.50 $83.77 $0.476 . $102.9 $302.1 $181.4 $180.1 $164.9
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A $5.010 $0.850 $0.472 $12.68 $4.666 $40.03 $138.8 $193.0 $4.458
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A . . . $1.970 $34.13 $228.1 $428.2 $634.8 $351.9
Railroad Accessories -- C & A $1.574 $3.075 $1.931 $29.69 $38.06 $43.92 $55.25 $27.72 $99.39
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A $494.0 $0.691 $0.248 $3.350 $15.42 $199.1 $46.41 $52.34 $31.58
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A . $0.609 $1.498 $1.352 $0.195 $63.59 $19.53 $27.30 .
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A $1.814 $1.449 $1.966 $2.096 $0.867 $13.72 $49.42 $59.07 $23.55
Plates in Coils -- C & A $261.9 . . $332.7 $2.664 $47.04 $8.497 $7.008 $257.5
Steel Piling -- C & A $0.201 $1.151 $0.368 $3.988 $4.787 $6.417 $2.517 $3.776 $0.864
Tin Free Steel -- C & A . . . . . . . . $3.319
Stainless        Products
All Stainless Products $1,527 $2,551 $3,523 $16,277 $22,539 $39,542 $78,599 $96,047 $82,100
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S $270.9 $629.2 $933.6 $9,372 $10,061 $22,605 $36,006 $45,740 $49,626
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S $533.9 $1,102 $1,600 $4,499 $7,493 $12,553 $25,138 $28,856 $16,166
Plates Cut Lengths -- S . . $0.547 $22.93 $41.63 $259.1 $6,895 $8,593 $4,145
Oil Country Goods -- S . . . . . . $3,576 $4,514 $3,966
Line Pipe -- S . . . . . . $728.1 $1,052 $294.4
Wire Drawn -- S $459.3 $420.4 $552.6 $969.7 $1,783 $1,894 $2,386 $2,907 $1,956
Plates in Coils -- S $0.642 . . $7.251 $68.42 $549.0 $1,446 $1,743 $2,092
Wire Rods -- S $109.9 $214.6 $159.3 $536.6 $691.6 $717.0 $709.1 $897.0 $801.7
Bars-Cold Finished -- S $112.8 $148.1 $116.2 $490.9 $1,920 $489.9 $699.7 $719.7 $706.4
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S . $2.514 . $94.48 $66.55 $94.73 $567.2 $477.0 $1,255
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S $29.01 $8.010 $108.3 $104.5 $142.3 $222.8 $238.6 $328.3 $725.6
Bars-Hot rolled -- S $0.223 $5.563 $11.28 $46.87 $130.4 $93.88 $95.54 $104.6 $171.0
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S $2.791 $1.237 $0.880 $14.12 $8.737 $10.80 $28.45 $27.41 $25.10
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S $3.759 $9.466 $11.49 $59.07 $86.84 $34.29 $76.28 $80.52 $144.1
Bars-Light Shaped -- S . . $23.11 $33.46 $41.45 $18.10 $8.696 $6.143 $25.78
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S . . . $22.27 . . $1.017 $1.525 .
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S $3.798 $9.688 $5.057 $4.205 $4.145 $0.624 . . .

SOURCE: US Department of Commerce, Import Administration
Table last modified on: October 28, 2008 , with
Final Census data compiled through August 2008
Data listed in order of descending volume exported during the year - 2007
Steel mill categories are defined by 10-digit HTS codes
 
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