US Imports of Steel Mill Products
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'C & A' = Carbon and Alloy products, 'S' = Stainless products

Product Census Data
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YTD Jan
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2008
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August
final)
All Steel Mill   Products
All Steel Mill Products 1,862,502 1,480,181 933,065 1,279,630 1,252,290 1,905,551 1,536,058 1,259,445 1,104,334
Carbon and Alloy Products
All Carbon and Alloy Products 1,833,836 1,460,564 908,939 1,255,362 1,218,061 1,868,959 1,475,988 1,218,065 1,059,155
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A 144,519 39,891 30,389 51,179 506.8 367,659 192,161 191,267 113,731
Rails Standard -- C & A 136,810 134,448 111,842 164,735 129,707 181,303 181,228 165,692 130,150
Line Pipe -- C & A 120,275 250,094 126,112 131,339 172,567 212,775 156,923 109,653 107,297
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A 103,204 94,741 102,961 107,116 124,307 128,349 144,361 106,990 119,732
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A 350,675 254,283 33,322 180,906 150,637 201,551 144,342 134,396 119,996
Wire Rods -- C & A 115,015 113,916 88,079 93,861 101,170 98,071 110,916 80,561 70,052
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A 229,580 73,029 43,747 75,741 74,898 104,825 70,560 57,058 41,818
Wire Drawn -- C & A 62,703 77,276 76,536 72,352 60,987 51,505 55,688 41,889 37,350
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A 30,208 18,621 23,432 39,321 52,415 42,931 42,843 35,479 20,111
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A 29,139 50,788 18,624 22,822 30,466 34,258 35,202 27,557 27,426
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A 54,178 49,167 28,161 29,067 40,311 37,649 34,407 24,025 23,907
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A 39,451 27,735 23,929 13,748 11,247 21,979 33,571 24,245 24,127
Tool Steel -- C & A 52,038 49,574 58,180 45,085 50,581 37,683 31,185 22,087 30,593
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A 16,958 11,167 7,395 9,703 8,742 14,096 25,706 22,067 24,312
Oil Country Goods -- C & A 70,956 36,375 36,478 53,069 52,498 65,852 23,985 21,846 23,958
Standard Pipe -- C & A 33,773 34,252 13,210 19,163 22,634 15,982 23,891 17,868 18,556
Tin Free Steel -- C & A 53,600 13,021 11,512 20,014 21,064 20,610 22,624 17,204 17,685
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A . 45.5 . 3,713 11,572 26,375 22,289 19,271 9,188
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A 14,743 15,327 2,023 127.5 4,691 19,924 20,946 19,450 13,552
Black Plate -- C & A 92,009 48,683 20,357 28,084 17,652 44,860 16,771 14,501 8,622
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A 17,861 20,986 15,606 35,116 17,862 74,475 16,296 12,901 26,681
Plates in Coils -- C & A 5,267 2,023 1,814 16,785 20,820 13,602 14,616 9,236 9,790
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A 19,776 15,769 5,117 6,910 5,048 13,740 12,240 9,208 13,446
Sheets & Strip All Other Metalic Coat -- C & A 1,682 2,791 11,136 9,127 8,457 9,849 9,862 8,136 6,360
Pipe For Piling -- C & A 4,078 777.7 527.8 1,842 2,592 4,367 7,756 5,493 1,269
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A 8,990 2,922 2,270 4,661 5,169 6,604 6,760 5,296 5,062
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A 5,871 3,848 5,049 5,659 6,548 5,815 5,379 4,182 3,204
Pressure Tubing -- C & A 3,042 7,456 4,572 5,377 3,090 5,528 4,423 3,528 3,231
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A 62.0 423.5 340.1 411.7 147.4 532.4 2,992 2,011 339.5
Tin Plate -- C & A 4,633 4,718 1,831 6,028 6,813 2,715 2,689 2,158 1,621
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A 1,113 1,153 831.9 889.3 746.3 1,615 2,009 1,469 1,751
Rails All Other -- C & A 3,301 2,601 3,184 1,358 2,098 1,849 1,216 1,197 3,630
C . . . . . . 118.7 118.7 .
Steel Piling -- C & A 870.5 143.5 351.1 5.55 4.32 6.50 11.9 11.9 571.9
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A 7,441 2,503 5.56 25.3 . 10.0 . . 21.1
Railroad Accessories -- C & A . . . 6.44 . . . . .
Stainless        Products
All Stainless Products 28,665 19,617 24,126 24,267 34,229 36,592 60,069 41,379 45,179
Oil Country Goods -- S . . . . . . 23,317 15,427 18,295
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S 13,073 4,168 10,139 9,057 17,425 11,953 11,064 8,589 5,711
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S 387.3 1,093 1,000 1,357 5,601 10,634 8,595 6,578 10,158
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S 2,360 2,162 3,647 5,412 3,668 4,361 5,707 2,628 1,789
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S 4,518 3,971 4,035 3,745 4,064 3,982 4,337 3,034 3,621
Plates Cut Lengths -- S 2,767 3,673 2,327 2,224 1,555 2,834 3,933 2,651 2,934
Wire Drawn -- S 1,521 1,126 1,093 1,048 1,036 933.6 1,133 737.1 1,016
Line Pipe -- S . . . . . . 528.4 520.4 52.9
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S 52.8 87.3 16.7 43.0 140.9 566.6 310.4 253.8 144.6
Plates in Coils -- S 1,195 1,213 517.5 169.7 1.24 142.5 296.5 294.1 38.1
Bars-Cold Finished -- S 283.4 306.1 425.2 436.2 237.8 419.8 226.2 192.4 196.8
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S 326.1 374.3 231.7 185.3 83.7 254.0 150.8 131.5 301.4
Bars-Light Shaped -- S 77.2 127.5 190.0 75.3 64.4 165.2 134.0 85.0 821.2
Bars-Hot rolled -- S 1,145 477.3 15.9 31.9 113.2 56.7 119.6 72.3 14.2
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S 66.8 90.9 191.4 98.9 22.6 53.8 112.8 97.1 24.9
Wire Rods -- S 888.5 728.1 262.7 262.6 214.5 232.8 101.3 85.1 57.4
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S 0.12 16.8 30.6 119.6 . . . . .

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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