US Imports of Steel Mill Products | |||
FROM CHINA | |||
Quantity in Metric Tons | |||
Same Table - Monthly Average US Dollars |
Same Table - Average Unit Value |
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Same Table - Annual Total Metric Tons |
Same Table - Annual Total US Dollars |
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'C & A' = Carbon and Alloy products, 'S' = Stainless products |
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Monthly Average Quantity 2001 |
Monthly Average Quantity 2002 |
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Monthly Average Quantity 2005 |
Monthly Average Quantity 2006 |
Monthly Average Quantity 2007 |
Monthly Average Quantity 2008 |
Monthly Average Quantity YTD Jan through Feb 2008 |
Monthly Average Quantity 2009 (through February final) |
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All Steel Mill Products | ||||||||||
All Steel Mill Products | 57,602 | 62,483 | 48,574 | 139,676 | 179,483 | 407,473 | 348,726 | 364,711 | 231,170 | 321,553 |
Carbon and Alloy Products | ||||||||||
All Carbon and Alloy Products | 56,888 | 61,169 | 46,873 | 133,326 | 171,969 | 394,397 | 331,593 | 347,568 | 213,744 | 311,385 |
Oil Country Goods -- C & A | 7,318 | 4,835 | 9,160 | 13,270 | 35,181 | 57,192 | 67,677 | 169,296 | 83,658 | 223,940 |
Line Pipe -- C & A | 1,946 | 2,705 | 3,698 | 4,558 | 6,691 | 31,099 | 36,799 | 40,598 | 40,698 | 19,595 |
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A | 2,725 | 848.9 | 2.16 | 13,353 | 11,235 | 56,375 | 28,334 | 35,475 | 21,689 | 12,391 |
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A | 55.1 | 46.5 | 58.0 | 209.4 | 1,973 | 4,377 | 8,061 | 28,213 | 12,323 | 8,645 |
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A | 6,940 | 2,478 | 48.2 | 8,006 | 6,176 | 32,682 | 16,947 | 15,073 | 13,685 | 10,807 |
Wire Rods -- C & A | 1,735 | 31,065 | 20,361 | 58,263 | 51,765 | 102,246 | 44,460 | 12,022 | 7,847 | 3,053 |
Wire Drawn -- C & A | 2,853 | 4,282 | 4,690 | 7,619 | 10,382 | 15,035 | 13,412 | 10,856 | 7,437 | 7,272 |
Standard Pipe -- C & A | 12,585 | 1,063 | 7,254 | 20,745 | 28,677 | 51,027 | 54,613 | 6,825 | 4,749 | 4,943 |
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A | 608.8 | 474.0 | 654.8 | 1,805 | 6,058 | 13,039 | 13,022 | 6,680 | 5,188 | 6,993 |
Sheets & Strip All Other Metalic Coat -- C & A | . | 1.63 | 0.33 | 0.60 | 308.5 | 3,706 | 5,344 | 5,864 | 3,216 | 2,312 |
Rails All Other -- C & A | 0.25 | . | 5.79 | 53.8 | 78.7 | 1,126 | 5,770 | 4,087 | 2,930 | 129.4 |
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A | 6,866 | 2,350 | 458.1 | 247.0 | 1,725 | 2,825 | 2,291 | 3,118 | 791.4 | 511.2 |
Pressure Tubing -- C & A | 89.0 | 56.4 | 71.4 | 77.4 | 300.3 | 1,277 | 839.0 | 1,524 | 532.7 | 613.8 |
Tool Steel -- C & A | 324.4 | 168.0 | 238.1 | 642.2 | 1,454 | 1,088 | 833.7 | 1,459 | 1,348 | 1,164 |
Tin Plate -- C & A | 935.4 | 245.0 | 2.63 | 313.2 | 671.9 | 2,191 | 2,237 | 1,319 | 2,841 | 1,433 |
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A | 143.8 | 33.4 | 18.9 | 174.5 | 335.7 | 1,428 | 1,231 | 1,131 | 622.3 | 1,785 |
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A | 61.5 | 120.2 | 58.9 | 436.2 | 2,159 | 8,228 | 13,289 | 915.9 | 652.0 | 1,091 |
Pipe For Piling -- C & A | . | . | . | 6.89 | 121.5 | 501.2 | 1,302 | 645.7 | 810.0 | 1,918 |
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A | . | . | . | 2.04 | 35.5 | 73.4 | 156.2 | 536.5 | 56.0 | 1,062 |
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A | 1,122 | 303.2 | 7.92 | . | 42.3 | 429.5 | 307.9 | 381.2 | 223.8 | 498.0 |
Black Plate -- C & A | 81.2 | 341.0 | 1.33 | . | 161.5 | 500.7 | 289.6 | 285.0 | 290.9 | 158.9 |
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A | 2,817 | 9,624 | 6.18 | 2,629 | 5,657 | 2,861 | 1,207 | 246.5 | 486.0 | 401.5 |
Railroad Accessories -- C & A | 1.85 | 2.26 | 3.05 | 33.5 | 47.6 | 50.5 | 60.4 | 196.1 | 214.0 | 125.6 |
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A | 3.97 | 1.91 | 9.20 | 59.5 | 173.3 | 915.1 | 615.8 | 179.8 | 182.3 | 110.2 |
Plates in Coils -- C & A | 1,114 | . | . | 481.2 | 5.01 | 70.1 | 9.77 | 158.4 | 853.3 | . |
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A | 4,069 | 35.9 | 17.1 | 159.1 | 92.7 | 1,178 | 9,393 | 138.8 | 191.6 | 101.7 |
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A | 329.6 | 45.9 | 35.9 | 138.3 | 361.7 | 836.3 | 1,121 | 122.8 | 116.5 | 37.3 |
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A | 71.8 | 29.8 | 1.82 | 7.40 | 46.7 | 201.8 | 590.8 | 87.2 | 63.8 | 26.3 |
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A | 2,074 | 1.63 | 0.39 | 4.44 | 26.5 | 327.6 | 41.1 | 76.8 | 20.7 | 18.8 |
Rails Standard -- C & A | 4.27 | 1.00 | 1.35 | 2.84 | 3.99 | 1,316 | 1,014 | 25.7 | 8.57 | . |
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A | 6.73 | 1.58 | 1.60 | 12.7 | 8.30 | 51.3 | 253.7 | 16.1 | 1.90 | 12.6 |
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A | 0.28 | 1.00 | 2.90 | 3.72 | 1.13 | 15.2 | 22.5 | 4.49 | 10.6 | 26.2 |
Tin Free Steel -- C & A | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 3.14 | . | 195.6 |
Steel Piling -- C & A | 0.00 | 0.62 | 0.50 | 5.26 | 4.50 | 5.87 | 1.90 | 1.34 | . | 4.44 |
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A | . | 1.90 | 1.71 | 2.34 | 0.04 | 113.8 | 37.6 | . | . | . |
Stainless Products | ||||||||||
All Stainless Products | 714.2 | 1,313 | 1,700 | 6,350 | 7,514 | 13,076 | 17,133 | 17,142 | 17,425 | 10,168 |
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S | 179.4 | 430.7 | 590.6 | 4,094 | 4,256 | 8,661 | 8,243 | 10,148 | 11,687 | 2,654 |
Oil Country Goods -- S | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1,199 | 2,241 | 582.9 | 4,116 |
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S | 184.2 | 412.6 | 595.1 | 1,296 | 1,818 | 3,002 | 4,099 | 2,020 | 3,109 | 1,606 |
Plates Cut Lengths -- S | . | . | 0.08 | 8.21 | 14.6 | 67.4 | 1,396 | 856.6 | 896.3 | 1,106 |
Plates in Coils -- S | 0.35 | . | . | 2.75 | 26.2 | 143.1 | 340.1 | 485.5 | 368.9 | 89.9 |
Wire Drawn -- S | 182.3 | 172.0 | 221.9 | 311.4 | 511.4 | 517.8 | 519.6 | 400.9 | 306.0 | 305.3 |
Wire Rods -- S | 103.7 | 212.3 | 162.2 | 337.2 | 366.9 | 386.7 | 296.0 | 331.5 | 184.9 | 58.0 |
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S | . | 1.53 | . | 39.8 | 25.9 | 35.3 | 126.7 | 283.2 | 44.6 | 59.9 |
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S | 19.9 | 5.55 | 57.4 | 44.4 | 50.3 | 83.5 | 46.2 | 144.3 | 31.7 | 18.2 |
Bars-Cold Finished -- S | 37.9 | 70.8 | 52.9 | 143.3 | 355.8 | 131.2 | 127.3 | 100.2 | 120.8 | 93.1 |
Line Pipe -- S | . | . | . | . | . | . | 697.9 | 69.8 | 35.9 | 18.1 |
Bars-Hot rolled -- S | 0.25 | 3.12 | 5.50 | 18.3 | 45.6 | 31.4 | 26.5 | 38.0 | 37.1 | 19.5 |
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S | 0.73 | 2.25 | 1.26 | 29.7 | 26.2 | 3.98 | 5.94 | 11.2 | 10.5 | 21.8 |
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S | 2.22 | 0.99 | 0.66 | 6.00 | 2.99 | 5.23 | 6.41 | 5.45 | 8.20 | . |
Bars-Light Shaped -- S | . | . | 11.8 | 13.1 | 12.0 | 6.76 | 1.98 | 4.87 | 0.56 | . |
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S | 3.12 | 1.73 | 1.18 | 1.59 | 0.61 | 0.20 | . | . | . | . |
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S | . | . | . | 3.05 | . | . | 0.15 | . | . | . |
SOURCE: US Department of Commerce, Import Administration |
Table last modified on: April 9, 2009 , with |
Final Census data compiled through February 2009 |
Data listed in order of descending volume exported during the year - 2008 |
Steel mill categories are defined by 10-digit HTS codes |
Data extracted from the import licenses are not official Census data |
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