US Imports of Steel Mill Products | |||
FROM CHINA | |||
Quantity in Metric Tons | |||
Same Table - Annual US Dollars |
Same Table - Average Unit Value |
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Same Table - Monthly Average Metric Tons |
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'C & A' = Carbon and Alloy products, 'S' = Stainless products |
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Annual Total Quantity 2008 |
Total Quantity YTD Jan through Feb 2008 |
Annual Total Quantity 2009 (through February final) |
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All Steel Mill Products | ||||||||||
All Steel Mill Products | 691,229 | 749,797 | 582,898 | 1,676,120 | 2,153,803 | 4,889,683 | 4,184,720 | 4,376,533 | 462,340 | 643,107 |
Carbon and Alloy Products | ||||||||||
All Carbon and Alloy Products | 682,657 | 734,031 | 562,486 | 1,599,916 | 2,063,635 | 4,732,769 | 3,979,117 | 4,170,822 | 427,488 | 622,770 |
Oil Country Goods -- C & A | 87,820 | 58,029 | 109,922 | 159,247 | 422,179 | 686,310 | 812,125 | 2,031,554 | 167,317 | 447,880 |
Line Pipe -- C & A | 23,354 | 32,466 | 44,384 | 54,698 | 80,300 | 373,192 | 441,590 | 487,177 | 81,396 | 39,191 |
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped -- C & A | 32,701 | 10,187 | 26.0 | 160,237 | 134,827 | 676,508 | 340,017 | 425,705 | 43,378 | 24,783 |
Bars-Hot rolled -- C & A | 661.9 | 559.0 | 696.5 | 2,512 | 23,685 | 52,524 | 96,737 | 338,561 | 24,646 | 17,290 |
Sheets Cold Rolled -- C & A | 83,283 | 29,738 | 579.4 | 96,075 | 74,119 | 392,195 | 203,370 | 180,879 | 27,370 | 21,615 |
Wire Rods -- C & A | 20,830 | 372,789 | 244,332 | 699,166 | 621,185 | 1,226,960 | 533,524 | 144,264 | 15,695 | 6,106 |
Wire Drawn -- C & A | 34,240 | 51,393 | 56,290 | 91,434 | 124,589 | 180,431 | 160,954 | 130,273 | 14,875 | 14,545 |
Standard Pipe -- C & A | 151,025 | 12,756 | 87,051 | 248,943 | 344,129 | 612,332 | 655,358 | 81,903 | 9,498 | 9,887 |
Mechanical Tubing -- C & A | 7,305 | 5,689 | 7,857 | 21,666 | 72,699 | 156,472 | 156,273 | 80,164 | 10,377 | 13,986 |
Sheets & Strip All Other Metalic Coat -- C & A | . | 19.5 | 3.97 | 7.23 | 3,702 | 44,473 | 64,130 | 70,369 | 6,432 | 4,625 |
Rails All Other -- C & A | 3.01 | . | 69.4 | 645.6 | 945.4 | 13,514 | 69,247 | 49,054 | 5,861 | 258.8 |
Plates Cut Lengths -- C & A | 82,400 | 28,211 | 5,497 | 2,964 | 20,711 | 33,900 | 27,496 | 37,423 | 1,582 | 1,022 |
Pressure Tubing -- C & A | 1,068 | 677.8 | 857.3 | 928.8 | 3,604 | 15,333 | 10,069 | 18,290 | 1,065 | 1,227 |
Tool Steel -- C & A | 3,893 | 2,016 | 2,858 | 7,707 | 17,459 | 13,062 | 10,005 | 17,516 | 2,697 | 2,328 |
Tin Plate -- C & A | 11,225 | 2,940 | 31.6 | 3,759 | 8,063 | 26,296 | 26,849 | 15,834 | 5,683 | 2,866 |
Bars-Cold Finished -- C & A | 1,725 | 401.5 | 227.1 | 2,094 | 4,029 | 17,138 | 14,774 | 13,582 | 1,244 | 3,571 |
Structural Pipe & Tube -- C & A | 738.0 | 1,443 | 706.9 | 5,235 | 25,915 | 98,739 | 159,474 | 10,991 | 1,304 | 2,183 |
Pipe For Piling -- C & A | . | . | . | 82.7 | 1,459 | 6,015 | 15,626 | 7,748 | 1,620 | 3,837 |
Sheets & Strip-Electrical -- C & A | . | . | . | 24.5 | 427.0 | 881.9 | 1,875 | 6,438 | 112.0 | 2,125 |
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt -- C & A | 13,474 | 3,638 | 95.1 | . | 508.0 | 5,154 | 3,695 | 4,575 | 447.6 | 996.0 |
Black Plate -- C & A | 974.7 | 4,092 | 16.0 | . | 1,938 | 6,008 | 3,475 | 3,420 | 581.9 | 317.8 |
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- C & A | 33,805 | 115,493 | 74.1 | 31,554 | 67,894 | 34,334 | 14,484 | 2,958 | 972.1 | 803.0 |
Railroad Accessories -- C & A | 22.2 | 27.1 | 36.6 | 402.2 | 572.3 | 606.3 | 725.4 | 2,353 | 428.0 | 251.3 |
Strip-Cold Rolled -- C & A | 47.6 | 22.9 | 110.4 | 714.5 | 2,079 | 10,981 | 7,390 | 2,157 | 364.7 | 220.5 |
Plates in Coils -- C & A | 13,372 | . | . | 5,775 | 60.1 | 841.6 | 117.2 | 1,901 | 1,706 | . |
Structural Shapes Heavy -- C & A | 48,829 | 431.5 | 205.4 | 1,910 | 1,113 | 14,136 | 112,722 | 1,666 | 383.2 | 203.4 |
Bars-Light Shaped -- C & A | 3,955 | 551.5 | 430.8 | 1,659 | 4,340 | 10,036 | 13,452 | 1,473 | 233.0 | 74.7 |
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified -- C & A | 862.5 | 358.6 | 21.9 | 88.8 | 560.9 | 2,421 | 7,089 | 1,046 | 127.6 | 52.6 |
Sheets Hot Rolled -- C & A | 24,896 | 19.6 | 4.76 | 53.3 | 318.8 | 3,931 | 493.9 | 921.9 | 41.5 | 37.7 |
Rails Standard -- C & A | 51.3 | 12.0 | 16.2 | 34.1 | 47.8 | 15,793 | 12,177 | 309.2 | 17.1 | . |
Bars-Reinforcing -- C & A | 80.7 | 19.0 | 19.2 | 152.8 | 99.6 | 616.3 | 3,045 | 193.9 | 3.80 | 25.2 |
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- C & A | 3.36 | 12.0 | 34.8 | 44.7 | 13.6 | 182.5 | 270.3 | 53.9 | 21.2 | 52.4 |
Tin Free Steel -- C & A | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 37.7 | . | 391.2 |
Steel Piling -- C & A | 0.08 | 7.49 | 6.09 | 63.1 | 54.0 | 70.5 | 22.8 | 16.0 | . | 8.88 |
Strip-Hot Rolled -- C & A | . | 22.9 | 20.6 | 28.1 | 0.50 | 1,366 | 452.3 | . | . | . |
Stainless Products | ||||||||||
All Stainless Products | 8,571 | 15,766 | 20,411 | 76,203 | 90,168 | 156,913 | 205,603 | 205,711 | 34,851 | 20,336 |
Sheets Cold Rolled -- S | 2,153 | 5,169 | 7,087 | 49,134 | 51,083 | 103,933 | 98,922 | 121,780 | 23,375 | 5,308 |
Oil Country Goods -- S | . | . | . | . | . | . | 14,391 | 26,895 | 1,165 | 8,232 |
Stainless Pipe & Tubing -- S | 2,210 | 4,951 | 7,141 | 15,558 | 21,816 | 36,024 | 49,191 | 24,250 | 6,218 | 3,213 |
Plates Cut Lengths -- S | . | . | 0.97 | 98.5 | 176.1 | 809.6 | 16,755 | 10,280 | 1,792 | 2,213 |
Plates in Coils -- S | 4.24 | . | . | 33.1 | 315.2 | 1,717 | 4,081 | 5,827 | 737.9 | 179.8 |
Wire Drawn -- S | 2,187 | 2,064 | 2,663 | 3,737 | 6,137 | 6,213 | 6,235 | 4,811 | 612.1 | 610.6 |
Wire Rods -- S | 1,244 | 2,548 | 1,946 | 4,046 | 4,403 | 4,640 | 3,552 | 3,978 | 369.8 | 116.1 |
Sheets Hot Rolled -- S | . | 18.3 | . | 477.7 | 311.6 | 424.0 | 1,520 | 3,399 | 89.2 | 119.8 |
Strip-Cold Rolled -- S | 239.7 | 66.6 | 689.5 | 533.3 | 604.1 | 1,003 | 555.5 | 1,731 | 63.5 | 36.4 |
Bars-Cold Finished -- S | 455.1 | 849.7 | 635.9 | 1,720 | 4,270 | 1,575 | 1,528 | 1,202 | 241.7 | 186.3 |
Line Pipe -- S | . | . | . | . | . | . | 8,375 | 838.7 | 71.9 | 36.3 |
Bars-Hot rolled -- S | 3.10 | 37.4 | 66.0 | 219.7 | 547.4 | 376.8 | 318.9 | 456.6 | 74.3 | 39.1 |
Blooms, Billets and Slabs -- S | 8.77 | 27.0 | 15.1 | 357.2 | 315.5 | 47.7 | 71.3 | 134.4 | 21.0 | 43.6 |
Strip-Hot Rolled -- S | 26.6 | 11.9 | 7.92 | 72.1 | 35.9 | 62.8 | 76.9 | 65.4 | 16.4 | . |
Bars-Light Shaped -- S | . | . | 142.0 | 158.2 | 144.2 | 81.2 | 23.7 | 58.4 | 1.13 | . |
Ingots and Steel for Castings -- S | 37.5 | 20.7 | 14.2 | 19.0 | 7.38 | 2.47 | . | . | . | . |
Structural Shapes Heavy -- S | . | . | . | 36.6 | . | . | 1.85 | . | . | . |
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 |
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