Bars and rods of stainless steel, not elsewhere specified

US trade by year

US imports were $31.2M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 31% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $132.0M, up 208%. 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
• Italy
• Korea, South
• Slovenia
• 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 52.0% 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, Mexico was cheapest, at $2.83/kg: 60.6% below Spain.

Landed cost from Italy rose 69% on a year earlier, to $8.71/kg, mostly on price: $3.35/kg then, $5.67/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Korea, South gained the most share: 15.8% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 0.0% in the 12 months before. Italy lost the most: 17.5%, down from 24.6%. 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.

• Mexico
• Italy
• Korea, South
• Slovenia
• 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 2025 · Duty paid: Mexico 0.0% → 28.0%, Italy 0.3% → 47.8%, Slovenia 12.2% → 37.5%, Germany 1.2% → 33.7%, all countries 6.5% → 39.8%.
2. December 2024 · Duty paid: Slovenia 22.6% → 8.5%.
   • Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars From Belarus, the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine: Continuation of Antidumping Duty OrdersDec 23, 2024 · International Trade Administration
   • Notice of Modification: China's Acts, Policies and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and InnovationSep 18, 2024 · Office of the US Trade Representative
3. January 2024 · Duty paid: all countries 15.3% → 2.0%.
   • Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of the Expedited Fifth Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty OrderJan 3, 2024 · International Trade Administration
   • Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Mexico: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022Nov 8, 2023 · International Trade Administration
4. September–October 2023 · Duty paid: Italy 3.4% → 18.2%, Germany 18.6% → 2.0%.
5. June 2023 · Duty paid: all countries 3.7% → 9.1%.
6. August 2022 · Duty paid: all countries 13.2% → 2.7%.
7. September 2020 · Duty paid: Italy 7.7% → 23.9%, all countries 13.9% → 21.5%.
   • Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Mexico: Final Affirmative Determination of Circumvention of the Antidumping Duty OrderJun 8, 2020 · International Trade Administration
8. December 2019 · Duty paid: Italy 20.0% → 9.2%.
   • Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Mexico: Initiation of Anti-Circumvention Inquiry of Antidumping Duty OrderOct 30, 2019 · International Trade Administration
   • Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order; 2017-2018.Oct 21, 2019 · International Trade Administration
9. June 2019 · Duty paid: Italy 25.3% → 12.3%.
   • 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
   • Stainless Steel Bar From India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018Apr 16, 2019 · International Trade Administration
   • Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017Apr 12, 2019 · International Trade Administration
10. June–July 2018 · Duty paid: Italy 0.3% → 24.8%, Germany 2.6% → 20.6%, Sweden 0.0% → 25.0%, all countries 0.1% → 23.1%.
    • Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Mexico: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2015-2016Jun 14, 2018 · International Trade Administration
    • Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017May 22, 2018 · International Trade Administration
    • Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review and Reinstatement of Certain Companies in the Antidumping Duty OrderApr 20, 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. These are the 5 newest of 20. Search the Federal Register for 7222.30

• Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Egypt: Countervailing Duty OrdersSep 18, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Bulgaria, Egypt, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty OrdersSep 18, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Bulgaria: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair ValueJul 30, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Egypt: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair ValueJul 30, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Egypt: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty DeterminationJul 30, 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; 120 have reported 2025 so far. Where a country's figure for imports from the US is under half or over double what the US recorded exporting there that year, the US figure is shown under it.

The biggest market outside the US is Germany, which imported $87.8M of this product in 2025, 4.8% of that from the US by its own count; the US records $11.9M of exports there.

The US supplies 28.7% of imports into the United Kingdom, but under 10% into Iraq, South Korea and Italy.

Related products

Other products under heading 7222: bars and rods of stainless steel not elsewhere specified; angles, shapes and sections of stainless steel. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.