Bars and rods of free-cutting nonalloy steel, hot-worked not elsewhere specified

US trade by year

US imports were $35.4M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 31% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $5.7M, down 47%. 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.

• Germany
• Canada
• France
• Brazil
• All countries

Who supplies the US

August 2026. Small figures under each value are the change from August 2025. Landed cost by origin, below, adds freight and duty to the price.

The 3 largest suppliers had 96.1% of US imports over the last 12 months.

Landed cost by origin

What importers paid to land this product at a US port from each main supplier, June–August 2026: the price, freight and insurance to the first US port, and duty, per unit. Suppliers with 3% or more of these imports, cheapest landed first. Small figures under landed cost are the change from the same months a year earlier.

• Price
• Freight and insurance
• Duty

Landed at a US port, Canada was cheapest, at $1.38/kg: 24.6% below France.

Landed cost from Canada fell 23% on a year earlier, to $1.38/kg, mostly on price: $1.15/kg then, $0.85/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Germany gained the most share: 47.0% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 25.4% in the 12 months before. France lost the most: 21.0%, down from 33.6%. 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.

• Germany
• Canada
• France
• Brazil
• 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. February–September 2025 · Duty paid: Germany 0.0% → 50.0%, Canada 0.0% → 47.5%, France 10.0% → 39.6%, all countries 0.0% → 49.2%.
   • 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. October–December 2021 · Duty paid: Germany 16.8% → 0.4%, France 24.2% → 18.5%, all countries 11.7% → 0.1%.
   • Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to-Length Plate From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2019-2020Aug 6, 2021 · International Trade Administration
3. June 2021 · Duty paid: all countries 6.5% → 13.3%.
   • Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-To-Length Plate From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2018-2019Mar 24, 2021 · International Trade Administration
4. May 2020 · Duty paid: all countries 7.4% → 13.8%.
5. May–September 2019 · Duty paid: Germany 23.9% → 17.0%, Canada 25.0% → 0.0%, France 24.5% → 16.7%, all countries 24.4% → 10.7%.
   • 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
6. June–July 2018 · Duty paid: Germany 0.0% → 25.0%, Canada 0.0% → 25.0%, France 0.0% → 25.0%, all countries 0.0% → 25.0%.

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; 103 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is Italy, which imported $47.8M of this product in 2025, none of it from the US.

The US supplies 39.9% of imports into Canada, but under 10% into Italy, Germany and Poland.

Of these, imports into Brazil grew fastest: up 49% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 7214: bars and rods of iron or nonalloy steel not elsewhere specified, not further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn etc., but including those twisted after rolling. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.