Semifinished products of alloy steel (other than stainless) not elsewhere specified

US trade by year

US imports were $1.50B in the 12 months to Aug 2026, up 100% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $90.8M, up 164%. 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.

• Brazil
• Mexico
• Argentina
• Romania
• 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 80.6% 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, Argentina was cheapest, at $0.66/kg: 1.9% below Korea, South.

Korea, South had the lowest price before freight and duty, $0.60/kg, but they added 12.2% to it.

Landed cost from Mexico rose 13% on a year earlier, to $0.96/kg, mostly on price: $0.57/kg then, $0.65/kg now.

How the market is shifting

Argentina gained the most share: 12.3% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 3.9% in the 12 months before. Romania lost the most: 9.6%, down from 18.0%. 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.

• Brazil
• Mexico
• Argentina
• Romania
• 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. April–June 2026 · Duty paid: Brazil 50.0% → 11.5%, all countries 22.4% → 33.4%.
2. November 2025 · Duty paid: Brazil 50.0% → 35.3%, all countries 27.7% → 22.4%.
3. May 2025 · Duty paid: Brazil 4.0% → 38.1%, Mexico 0.0% → 35.7%, all countries 2.1% → 24.2%.
4. June 2020 · Duty paid: all countries 6.7% → 0.6%.
   • Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationMay 26, 2020 · International Trade Administration
   • Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks From Italy: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationMay 26, 2020 · International Trade Administration
   • Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks From India: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationMay 26, 2020 · International Trade Administration
5. April–June 2019 · Duty paid: Mexico 25.0% → 0.0%, all countries 10.2% → 2.0%.
   • 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. September 2018 · Duty paid: all countries 3.3% → 10.3%.
7. May–June 2018 · Duty paid: Mexico 0.0% → 24.6%, Russia 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; 107 have reported 2025 so far.

The biggest market outside the US is the United Kingdom, which imported $334.9M of this product in 2025, 0.6% of that from the US.

Of these, imports into Romania grew fastest: up 58% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 7224: alloy steel (other than stainless) in ingots, other primary forms and semifinished products. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.