Shipped Where
Imported, 2025Imported 2025
$2.6 billion$2.6B
vs 2010
0.8× (nominal)
Arrived by shipBy ship
90%
Busiest portTop port
Houston, TX

Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron or steel: Japan leads with 12% of $2.6 billion.

Austria is just behind, also at 12%.

Where it comes from, 2025Where it comes from

Share by value of the $2.6B the US imported, by country of originShare by value, by country of origin

  1. 01Japan$0.32B12.3%
  2. 02Austria$0.31B12.0%
  3. 03Mexico$0.23B8.9%
  4. 04Italy$0.23B8.7%
  5. 05China$0.19B7.2%
  6. 06Canada$0.17B6.7%
  7. 07Spain$0.15B5.7%
  8. 08Germany$0.13B5.1%
  9. 09Brazil$0.13B4.8%
  10. 10South Korea$0.12B4.5%
  11. All othersEveryone else combined: $0.63B24.1%

Total US HS 7304 imports by year · $3.4B in 2010 to $2.6B in 2025Replay the ranking year by year, 2010 to 2025

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Then and now: 2015 vs 2025Then and now

Each country's share of US imports. Gray bar is 2015, colored bar is 2025.Share of US imports. Gray is 2015, color is 2025.

Austria5.3% → 12%
Canada3.5% → 6.7%
Italy5.6% → 8.7%
Spain3.5% → 5.7%
Brazil3.2% → 4.8%
China7.4% → 7.2%
South Korea4.8% → 4.5%
Japan14% → 12%
Germany8.9% → 5.1%
Mexico13% → 8.9%
2015 share2025, gained2025, lost

Where it comes from

Bigger circle = more value, 2025. Numbers match the list.

Europe is the largest source at 45%, then Asia at 30%. Japan and Austria send 24% between them, and Mexico, Italy and China add another 25%.

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  1. 01Japan
  2. 02Austria
  3. 03Mexico
  4. 04Italy
  5. 05China
  6. 06Canada
  7. 07Spain
  8. 08Germany

Where it lands

US port where it entered, 2025. Letters match the list.

90% arrives by ship, mostly through Gulf Coast ports. Most of it enters at Houston (68%). Sault Ste. Marie follows at 5%.

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  1. AHouston, TX $1.77B
  2. BSault Ste. Marie, MI $0.14B
  3. CLos Angeles, CA $86.8M
  4. DNewark, NJ $66.5M
  5. ENew Orleans, LA $56.5M
  6. FMobile, AL $50.3M
More detail: states listed on entry paperworkMore detail: states on paperwork

This is the destination written on customs forms, often a warehouse or distributor near the port. It is not where the product is used.

One state is listed for over $1B.

  1. 01Texas$1.90B
  2. 02Pennsylvania$0.10B
  3. 03California$61.2M
  4. 04Oklahoma$57.5M
  5. 05Alabama$52.0M
$1B+$400M–1B$100–400M$10–100MUnder $10M

Counted under HS 7304. How we count.