Flat-rolled iron or nonalloy steel, 600 mm or more wide, hot-rolled, not clad, plated, coated or coils, 3 mm to under 4.75 mm thick

US trade by year

US imports were $13.9M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 5.1% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $40.7M, up 180%. Dotted lines mark lasting changes in duty paid, labelled with the supplier, or "Duty" when several moved; the tariff timeline lists each one with its notices.

• Canada
• Egypt
• Mexico
• Colombia
• All countries

Who supplies the US

August 2026. Small figures under each value are the change from August 2025.

The 3 largest suppliers had 99.0% of US imports over the last 12 months.

How the market is shifting

Canada lost the most share: 96.1% of US imports over the last 12 months, down from 97.8% in the 12 months before. The charts show September 2024 to August 2026 for the 4 largest suppliers over the last 12 months. Dotted lines mark lasting changes in duty paid, labelled with the supplier, or "Duty" when several moved; the tariff timeline lists each one with its notices.

• Canada
• Egypt
• Mexico
• Colombia
• All countries

Tariff actions touching this product

When the duty paid on this product changed and stayed changed, for its main suppliers and all countries, newest first, with the Federal Register notices that named the product in the 3 months before. Rates are medians of the 4 months either side, less any usual seasonal swing. A change shows what happened to duty paid, not why; read each notice for what it did.

1. May–June 2025 · Duty paid: Canada 9.0% → 50.0%, all countries 0.1% → 38.9%.
   • Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023Feb 21, 2025 · International Trade Administration
2. May–June 2019 · Duty paid: Canada 24.9% → 0.0%, all countries 24.7% → 0.2%.
   • Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From India and Indonesia: Final Results of Expedited Sunset Reviews of the Countervailing Duty OrdersJun 12, 2019 · International Trade Administration
   • Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018Jun 4, 2019 · International Trade Administration
   • Request for Comments Concerning Proposed Modification of Action Pursuant to Section 301: China's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and InnovationMay 17, 2019 · Office of the US Trade Representative
3. May–June 2018 · Duty paid: Canada 0.0% → 25.0%, all countries 0.0% → 23.8%.
   • Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate From India, Indonesia, and the Republic of Korea; Continuation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty OrdersMar 12, 2018 · International Trade Administration
   • Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017Mar 12, 2018 · International Trade Administration

Federal Register notices from the last 12 months that list this product's tariff codes. A notice can add a duty, exclude products from one or only mention them, so read each for what it changes. Search the Federal Register for 7208.53

• Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Ukraine: Final Results of the Expedited Fifth Sunset Review of the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping InvestigationSep 30, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate Products From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025May 8, 2026 · International Trade Administration

Markets abroad

Each country's own import figures for this product, from UN Comtrade: the 8 biggest importers outside the US in the latest year each has reported, what they bought from the US, and the change from the year before. Values usually include freight and insurance to the importer's border, so they run a little above US export figures. Countries report a year or more late; 115 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is Germany, which imported $127.6M of this product in 2025, none of it from the US.

The US supplies 97.0% of imports into Mexico, but under 10% into Germany, the Czech Republic and France.

Of these, imports into Mexico grew fastest: up 131% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 7208: flat-rolled iron or nonalloy steel products, 600 mm (23.6 in.) or more wide, hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.