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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2009
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February
final)
All Steel Mill   Products
All Steel Mill Products 155,208 123,348 77,755 106,635 104,357 158,795 128,004 133,565 114,825 112,753
Carbon and Alloy Products
All Carbon and Alloy Products 152,819 121,713 75,744 104,613 101,505 155,746 122,999 127,531 109,455 107,351
Rails Standard -- C & A 11,400 11,204 9,320 13,727 10,808 15,108 15,102 14,073 13,250 19,664
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A 8,600 7,895 8,580 8,926 10,358 10,695 12,030 13,858 13,535 10,896
Line Pipe -- C & A 10,022 20,841 10,509 10,944 14,380 17,731 13,076 13,741 9,257 15,198
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A 29,222 21,190 2,776 15,075 12,553 16,795 12,028 12,638 2,676 4.62
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A 12,043 3,324 2,532 4,264 42.2 30,638 16,013 11,543 18,644 361.5
Wire Rods -- C & A 9,584 9,493 7,339 7,821 8,430 8,172 9,243 8,703 8,397 7,156
Oil Country Goods -- C & A 5,913 3,031 3,039 4,422 4,374 5,487 1,998 7,814 1,008 10,289
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A 19,131 6,085 3,645 6,311 6,241 8,735 5,880 5,197 4,820 5,269
Wire Drawn -- C & A 5,225 6,439 6,378 6,029 5,082 4,292 4,640 4,104 4,830 2,327
Tool Steel -- C & A 4,336 4,131 4,848 3,757 4,215 3,140 2,598 3,733 3,702 2,663
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A 1,413 930.6 616.2 808.6 728.5 1,174 2,142 3,668 2,003 4,755
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A 2,428 4,232 1,552 1,901 2,538 2,854 2,933 3,651 3,552 4,008
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A 4,514 4,097 2,346 2,422 3,359 3,137 2,867 2,954 3,007 2,347
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A 1,488 1,748 1,300 2,926 1,488 6,206 1,358 2,936 2,309 2,353
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A 2,517 1,551 1,952 3,276 4,367 3,577 3,570 2,927 1,152 2,016
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A 3,287 2,311 1,994 1,145 937.2 1,831 2,797 2,559 4,111 2,784
Standard Pipe -- C & A 2,814 2,854 1,100 1,596 1,886 1,331 1,990 2,291 1,843 5,700
Tin Free Steel -- C & A 4,466 1,085 959.3 1,667 1,755 1,717 1,885 2,103 1,877 1,836
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A 1,648 1,314 426.4 575.8 420.7 1,145 1,020 1,440 718.3 462.8
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A 1,228 1,277 168.6 10.6 390.9 1,660 1,745 1,278 1,129 207.2
Plates in Coils -- C & A 438.9 168.5 151.1 1,398 1,735 1,133 1,218 1,177 714.2 595.8
Sheets & Strip All Other Metalic Coat -- C & A 140.1 232.6 928.0 760.6 704.7 820.7 821.9 1,053 566.3 1,462
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A . 3.79 . 309.4 964.3 2,197 1,857 979.4 1,777 .
Black Plate -- C & A 7,667 4,056 1,696 2,340 1,471 3,738 1,397 841.7 1,682 1,717
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A 749.2 243.5 189.2 388.4 430.7 550.3 563.3 487.5 567.8 166.7
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A 489.2 320.7 420.7 471.6 545.7 484.6 448.3 388.8 405.3 256.7
Rails All Other -- C & A 275.1 216.7 265.3 113.2 174.9 154.1 101.3 356.2 448.8 1,056
Pressure Tubing -- C & A 253.5 621.3 381.0 448.0 257.5 460.6 368.6 309.0 797.3 102.3
Tin Plate -- C & A 386.1 393.2 152.6 502.3 567.7 226.2 224.1 214.6 192.6 232.7
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A 92.8 96.1 69.3 74.1 62.1 134.6 167.4 205.0 156.1 168.0
Pipe For Piling -- C & A 339.8 64.8 43.9 153.5 216.0 363.9 646.3 195.8 . 1,158
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A 5.16 35.2 28.3 34.3 12.2 44.3 249.4 49.5 57.2 129.5
Steel Piling -- C & A 72.5 11.9 29.2 0.46 0.36 0.54 0.99 47.6 254.7 .
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A 620.1 208.6 0.46 2.11 . 0.84 . 1.76 5.28 .
C . . . . . . 9.89 . . .
Railroad Accessories -- C & A . . . 0.53 . . . . . .
Stainless        Products
All Stainless Products 2,388 1,634 2,010 2,022 2,852 3,049 5,005 6,034 5,370 5,401
Oil Country Goods -- S . . . . . . 1,943 2,787 2,434 2,723
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S 32.2 91.1 83.3 113.1 466.7 886.1 716.2 1,290 950.5 1,113
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S 1,089 347.3 844.9 754.7 1,452 996.0 922.0 724.0 492.6 710.0
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S 376.5 330.9 336.2 312.0 338.7 331.9 361.4 415.3 491.6 181.6
Plates Cut Lengths -- S 230.6 306.0 193.9 185.3 129.5 236.2 327.7 346.4 290.8 174.9
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S 196.7 180.1 303.9 451.0 305.7 363.4 475.6 184.6 406.6 100.9
Wire Drawn -- S 126.7 93.8 91.1 87.3 86.3 77.8 94.4 116.6 105.9 94.7
Bars-Light Shaped -- S 6.43 10.6 15.8 6.27 5.37 13.7 11.1 77.2 57.6 44.3
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S 27.1 31.1 19.3 15.4 6.98 21.1 12.5 33.3 59.7 23.0
Bars-Cold Finished -- S 23.6 25.5 35.4 36.3 19.8 34.9 18.8 21.6 39.7 25.7
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S 4.40 7.27 1.39 3.58 11.7 47.2 25.8 13.5 23.0 6.27
Wire Rods -- S 74.0 60.6 21.8 21.8 17.8 19.4 8.44 8.37 9.78 5.21
Line Pipe -- S . . . . . . 44.0 6.83 0.99 137.3
Plates in Coils -- S 99.5 101.1 43.1 14.1 0.10 11.8 24.7 3.17 . 59.7
Bars-Hot rolled -- S 95.4 39.7 1.32 2.66 9.44 4.72 9.97 2.52 2.51 .
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S 5.56 7.58 15.9 8.24 1.88 4.49 9.40 2.47 4.57 0.95
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S 0.01 1.40 2.55 9.97 . . . . . .

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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