Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless not elsewhere specified, of circular cross section of alloy steel (other than stainless), not cold-drawn or cold-rolled

US trade by year

US imports were $171.6M in the 12 months to Aug 2026, down 19% on the 12 months to Aug 2017. US exports were $48.3M, down 71%. 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
• China
• Mexico
• 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 55.6% 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, Mexico was cheapest, at $2.12/kg: 23.6% below Sweden.

Landed cost from Austria rose 64% on a year earlier, to $5.49/kg, mostly on price: $2.48/kg then, $4.08/kg now.

How the market is shifting

China gained the most share: 18.6% of US imports over the last 12 months, up from 12.7% in the 12 months before. Spain lost the most: 5.9%, down from 18.6%. 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
• China
• Mexico
• 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–November 2025 · Duty paid: Germany 9.4% → 40.3%, China 27.7% → 84.4%, Mexico 0.0% → 49.7%, Romania 3.1% → 44.3%, Spain 3.1% → 49.3%, all countries 1.8% → 54.3%.
   • Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the U.S.-EU Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced TradeSep 25, 2025 · Office of the US Trade Representative
   • Implementing Certain Tariff-Related Elements of the United States-Japan AgreementSep 16, 2025 · International Trade Administration
   • Imports of Automobiles, Automobile Parts, Civil Aircraft and Civil Aircraft Parts From the United Kingdom Under Executive Order 14309Jun 30, 2025 · International Trade Administration
2. October 2024 · Duty paid: China 13.5% → 24.7%.
   • 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
   • Circular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube Products From the Republic of Türkiye; Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Türkiye; Certain Oil Tubular Goods From the Republic of Türkiye; and Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the Republic of Türkiye: Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty Changed Circumstances ReviewsSep 10, 2024 · International Trade Administration
   • Circular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube Products From the Republic of Türkiye; Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Türkiye; Certain Oil Tubular Goods From the Republic of Türkiye; and Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the Republic of Türkiye: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances ReviewSep 10, 2024 · International Trade Administration
3. July 2023 · Duty paid: Romania 17.9% → 0.9%.
   • Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line, And Pressure Pipe (Over 41/2 Inches) From Japan: Continuation of the Antidumping Duty OrderJun 14, 2023 · International Trade Administration
   • Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe (Under 41/2 Inches) From Japan and Romania: Continuation of the Antidumping Duty OrdersJun 13, 2023 · International Trade Administration
4. February 2023 · Duty paid: Romania 1.2% → 22.1%.
   • Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe (Under 41/2 Inches) From Japan and Romania: Final Results of the Expedited Fourth Sunset Reviews of the Antidumping Duty OrdersJan 23, 2023 · International Trade Administration
   • Oil Country Tubular Goods From the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation: Countervailing Duty OrdersNov 21, 2022 · International Trade Administration
   • Oil Country Tubular Goods From Argentina, Mexico, and the Russian Federation: Antidumping Duty Orders and Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Duty Determination for the Russian FederationNov 21, 2022 · International Trade Administration
5. February 2022 · Duty paid: Romania 24.0% → 0.2%.
   • Oil Country Tubular Goods From the People's Republic of China: Initiation and Preliminary Results of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Changed Circumstances ReviewsFeb 14, 2022 · International Trade Administration
   • Oil Country Tubular Goods From Argentina, Mexico, and the Russian Federation: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value InvestigationsNov 1, 2021 · International Trade Administration
   • Oil Country Tubular Goods From the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation: Initiation of Countervailing Duty InvestigationsNov 1, 2021 · International Trade Administration
6. August 2021 · Duty paid: Germany 13.9% → 3.8%.
   • Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation: Countervailing Duty OrdersAug 23, 2021 · International Trade Administration
   • Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine: Antidumping Duty OrdersAug 23, 2021 · International Trade Administration
   • Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From Korea, Russia, and UkraineAug 20, 2021 · International Trade Commission
7. March–May 2021 · Duty paid: China 26.3% → 10.7%, Romania 6.6% → 18.6%, Spain 13.0% → 6.9%.
   • Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From the Czech Republic: Antidumping Duty OrderApr 26, 2021 · International Trade Administration
   • Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From Czechia; DeterminationApr 23, 2021 · International Trade Commission
   • Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From the Czech Republic: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair ValueMar 5, 2021 · International Trade Administration
8. December 2020 · Duty paid: Spain 0.5% → 14.2%.
   • Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From Czechia, Korea, Russia, and Ukraine; Scheduling of the Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty InvestigationsDec 31, 2020 · International Trade Commission
   • Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From the Czech Republic: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair ValueDec 21, 2020 · International Trade Administration
   • Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From the Russian Federation: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationDec 11, 2020 · International Trade Administration
9. April–June 2020 · Duty paid: Germany 22.7% → 9.3%, Romania 22.3% → 10.5%.
   • Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited Second Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty OrderJun 29, 2020 · International Trade Administration
   • Certain Small Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe From Romania: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2018-2019May 8, 2020 · International Trade Administration
   • Oil Country Tubular Goods From Ukraine: Final Results of the First Five-Year Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty OrderMay 7, 2020 · International Trade Administration
10. May–October 2019 · Duty paid: China 18.9% → 34.2%, Mexico 25.0% → 0.0%, Spain 12.0% → 3.6%, all countries 20.7% → 10.9%.
    • Oil Country Tubular Goods From the Republic of Turkey: Final Results of the Expedited First Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty OrderOct 15, 2019 · International Trade Administration
    • Oil Country Tubular Goods From Ukraine: Preliminary Results of the First Five-Year Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty OrderSep 30, 2019 · International Trade Administration
    • Oil Country Tubular Goods From India: Final Results of the Expedited Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty OrderSep 24, 2019 · International Trade Administration
11. November 2018 · Duty paid: Russia 25.0% → 15.3%.
12. May–July 2018 · Duty paid: Germany 0.0% → 24.9%, China 0.2% → 22.1%, Mexico 0.0% → 24.8%, Romania 0.2% → 24.8%, all countries 0.1% → 22.7%.
    • Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From Turkey: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017Jun 11, 2018 · International Trade Administration
    • Certain Small Diameter Seamless Carbon and Alloy Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe From Germany: Continuation of Antidumping Duty OrderFeb 28, 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 13. Search the Federal Register for 7304.59

• Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From India, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Türkiye, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Ukraine: Continuation of Antidumping Duty Orders and Countervailing Duty OrdersOct 22, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe From Georgia and India; Institution of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations and Scheduling of Preliminary Phase InvestigationsOct 20, 2026 · International Trade Commission
• Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From Austria: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty DeterminationSep 3, 2026 · International Trade Administration
• Notice of Action: Brazil's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Digital Trade and Electronic Payment Services; Unfair, Preferential Tariffs; Anti-Corruption Enforcement; Intellectual Property Protection; Ethanol Market Access; and Illegal DeforestationJul 20, 2026 · Office of the US Trade Representative
• Oil Country Tubular Goods From the People's Republic of China: Continuation of Antidumping Duty Order and Countervailing Duty OrderJun 23, 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; 114 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 India, which imported $394.1M of this product in 2025, under 0.1% of it from the US.

Of these, imports into Australia grew fastest: up 217% from 2024 to 2025.

Related products

Other products under heading 7304: tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast) or steel. US trade over the 12 months to August 2026.