Stainless steel ingots and other primary forms

US trade by year

US imports were $19.9M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 50% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $52.6M, down 16%. 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
• Italy
• United Kingdom
• Australia
• 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 93.4% 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 $3.65/kg: 22.8% below Italy.

Landed cost from Australia fell 54% on a year earlier, to $13.41/kg, mostly on price: $21.26/kg then, $8.80/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Italy gained the most share: 13.7% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 4.2% in the 12 months before. Australia lost the most: 2.7%, down from 15.3%. 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
• Italy
• United Kingdom
• Australia
• 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. November 2025 · Duty paid: all countries 37.0% → 50.3%.
2. June 2025 · Duty paid: all countries 9.6% → 37.6%.
3. March 2025 · Duty paid: Australia 0.0% → 25.0%.
4. August 2023 · Duty paid: Italy 2.2% → 23.2%.
5. November 2019 · Duty paid: Italy 18.0% → 24.6%.
6. July 2019 · Duty paid: all countries 18.7% → 7.5%.
   • 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
7. January 2019 · Duty paid: all countries 4.6% → 16.0%.

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; 89 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is Italy, which imported $78.1M of this product in 2025, 0.8% of that from the US.

The US supplies 97.9% of imports into Canada, but under 10% into Italy, Belgium and Germany.

Of these, imports into Saudi Arabia grew fastest: up 483% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 7218: stainless steel in ingots, other primary forms and semifinished products. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.