L sections of iron or nonalloy steel, hot-worked, less than 80 mm high

US trade by year

US imports were $26.0M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 58% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $51.5M, up 46%. 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.

• Mexico
• Turkey
• Vietnam
• Canada
• 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 92.6% 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, Vietnam was cheapest, at $0.73/kg: 16.8% below Mexico.

Mexico had the lowest price before freight and duty, $0.56/kg, but they added 54.6% to it.

Landed cost from Canada rose 35% on a year earlier, to $2.32/kg, mostly on price: $1.22/kg then, $1.54/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Mexico gained the most share: 69.3% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 59.1% in the 12 months before. Canada lost the most: 3.6%, down from 30.2%. 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.

• Mexico
• Turkey
• Vietnam
• Canada
• 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 2026 · Duty paid: all countries 41.4% → 50.1%.
2. September 2025 · Duty paid: Turkey 42.5% → 50.0%.
3. May 2025 · Duty paid: Mexico 0.1% → 46.2%, Canada 0.0% → 39.0%, all countries 6.7% → 37.3%.
4. July 2024 · Duty paid: Turkey 25.0% → 19.1%.
5. May 2019 · Duty paid: Mexico 25.0% → 0.0%, Canada 25.0% → 0.0%, all countries 26.3% → 1.3%.
   • 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. January 2019 · Duty paid: Turkey 34.5% → 50.0%.
7. July 2018 · Duty paid: Mexico 0.0% → 25.0%, Canada 0.0% → 25.0%, all countries 0.6% → 25.7%.

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; 122 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is Malaysia, which imported $57.4M of this product in 2025, under 0.1% of it from the US.

The US supplies 38.0% of imports into Canada and 90.8% into Mexico, but under 10% into Malaysia, Morocco and Germany.

Of these, imports into Malaysia grew fastest: up 34% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 7216: angles, shapes and sections of iron or nonalloy steel. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.