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Preliminary: U.S. Imports for Consumption of Steel Products
May 2010
 

The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that preliminary May steel imports were $2.1 billion 
(2.0 million metric tons) compared to the preliminary April totals of $1.9 billion (1.9 
million metric tons).     
	
The May change in steel imports based on metric tonnage reflected increases primarily in 
blooms, billets, and slabs.  Monthly increases occurred primarily with India. 
   
The year to date final statistics through April 2010 showed steel imports of 6.7 million 
metric tons compared to 6.1 million metric tons through April 2009. The largest commodity 
increase was blooms, billets, and slabs and the largest commodity decrease was in oil country 
goods.  The largest country increase was with Canada and the largest country decrease was 
with China.  

 

Notes:

The data in this report are preliminary and subject to revisions.

Analysis of recent months for steel product imports indicates the value of preliminary data 
should equal about 96 percent of the final value reported in the regular monthly trade 
statistics report.  Preliminary data reported for individual steel categories and at the 
individual country of origin level have been less consistently predictive of the final data 
reported in the regular monthly trade statistics. For further details visit the Foreign Trade 
Division web site at: www.census.gov/trade. On the web site you can access product by country 
and country by product tables.

The next release is July 27, 2010.