What countries actually pay for steel

Import and export unit values by country and product, computed from published customs declarations. Real money that changed hands at a border — not a survey, not an index, and free to check against the source.

• 7reporting markets
• 10product headings
• 45,572,756 timports covered, 2024

Country markets

Europe

Türkiye & CIS

Middle East

Africa

Products

How to read these numbers

A customs unit value is the simplest honest price there is: someone declared a value and a weight at a border, and the division is the price. It has three properties that a market assessment does not. It is published, so anyone can recompute it. It is complete, covering every shipment rather than a panel of respondents. And it is slow — annual, arriving months after the year ends.

What it is not: a spot price. It blends grades, sizes and contract terms inside one heading, and it mixes long-term contracts with one-off shipments. Use it to see where a market sits and how lanes compare, then ask for a quotation for the tonne you actually want to buy.

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