Welded hollow sections prices by country (HS 730661)

Square and rectangular hollow sections are formed from the same strip as round tube but finished differently, and they are priced as a conversion on top of that strip rather than as a commodity of their own. That makes this heading a good place to watch how much of a finished price is steel and how much is fabrication.

• 1,106 USD/tmidpoint of the import column, 2024
• 23markets reporting
• HS 730661HS code covered

What importers declared

Loading-port values by country

Reading the welded hollow sections numbers

• The set runs South Africa at 533 USD per tonne up to Nigeria at 2,316, 335 % apart. Wall thickness explains most of it, since thin wall sections carry more forming cost per tonne.
• Hollow sections arrived at 3,222,110 tonnes across the reporting markets in welded hollow sections of 2024, worth 3,308 million dollars, Germany holding 34 %.
• Germany earns 644 USD per tonne more on export than it spends on import, the profile of a section mill rather than a distributor.

What sits inside HS 730661

The unit value tracks the strip the section was formed from plus roughly 120–200 USD of forming, welding and bundling.

• The forming and welding conversion over strip normally lands between 120 and 200 USD per tonne; anything far outside that is a mix effect.
• Corner radius is a design input, not a detail: EN 10219 cold-formed sections and EN 10210 hot-finished sections have different radii and different structural behaviour.
• Thin wall sizes under 2 mm are bought by furniture and fencing markets and price well above structural sections of the same outside dimension.
• Weight per metre, not price per tonne, is how a fabricator should compare offers, because two mills can hit the same nominal size at different wall tolerances.

How these unit values are computed, and where they mislead →

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