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
		FEB08	MAR08	APR08	MAY08	JUN08	JUL08	AUG08	SEP08	OCT08	NOV08	DEC08	JAN09	FEB09	MAR09	MAR09	APR09
M	WORLD	21,208	21,969	20,281	23,311	12,177	28,244	16,699	9,752	18,272	18,540	13,889	20,622	24,538	23,832	30,470	4,948
M	JAPAN	15,179	21,055	18,957	17,825	11,419	23,059	11,331	8,366	11,211	12,361	6,795	14,994	24,334	15,059	15,058	2,781
M	CZECH REPUBLIC	5,514	16.9	554.3	4,690	88.2	4,687	4,505	842.4	5,742	5,362	5,691	4,900	156.1	7,472	14,249	1,445
M	LUXEMBOURG	154.0	414.4	446.6	60.6	400.3	82.7	639.3	449.7	963.2	467.7	941.4	29.6	29.0	740.6	499.9	109.5
M	SPAIN	352.2	286.7	56.1	104.3	63.0	184.1	145.8	.	121.6	66.6	187.3	297.1	.	.	.	.
M	MEXICO	.	.	.	505.6	.	.	.	.	84.7	175.6	.	69.3	.	244.2	244.2	81.4
M	GERMANY	.	18.0	.	.	33.4	108.0	58.6	58.6	149.7	39.1	.	172.1	.	2.18	2.91	207.7
M	CANADA	5.64	146.0	129.1	124.7	81.5	15.5	.	10.9	.	.	3.75	.	5.48	108.2	87.6	43.1
M	KOREA	.	.	.	.	.	44.1	.	21.2	.	66.9	43.8	113.0	.	132.6	132.6	64.2
M	CHINA	.	.	136.6	.	34.8	58.3	.	3.51	.	.	58.7	.	.	22.2	29.1	.
M	TAIWAN	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	167.5	.	.	.	.	.
M	AUSTRIA	2.55	25.9	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	43.1	43.1	156.8
M	UNITED KINGDOM	.	.	1.00	.	.	3.79	18.6	.	.	.	.	27.3	13.5	.	.	.
M	NETHERLANDS	.	6.44	.	.	55.9	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
M	INDIA	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	18.5	.	.	.	.
M	ITALY	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	6.74	6.74	.
M	BELGIUM	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	115.6	.
M	SWEDEN	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0.78
M	UNITED STATES	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	57.7

SOURCE: US Department of Commerce, Import Administration

Table last modified on: May 5, 2009, with

Licensing data collected through May 5, 2009 and

Preliminary Census data compiled through March 2009

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