Government data on metals and mining, including production volumes, import & export statistics, tarrif information, metal industry market trends, alloy prices and leadtimes.
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA periodically reviews effluent limitations guidelines and standards under the Clean Water Act for industry. The iron and steel manufacturing industry reports are published here with more background information on the process, studies, and surveys.
OIT: Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technology
Creates partnerships between industry, government, laboratories and trade groups to accelerate technology research and development. Focus is on the aluminum, chemical, metalcasting, glass, mining, forestry, petroleum, and steel industries.
OSHA: Occupational Safety & Health Administration
OSHA strives to make America's industrial workplaces the safest in the world through standards development, enforcement and compliance assistance.
U.S. Census Bureau - Steel Import Reports
Foreign trade statistics on steel imports and monthly reports, imports and exports by country, trade balances, commodity trade.
U.S. Customs Service
The U.S. Customs Service was created to enforce the laws of the United States, safeguard the revenue, and foster lawful international trade and travel. To the importer, Customs provides advice, protection, and control of merchandise shipped into the country.
U.S. International Trade Commission - Tariff DataWeb
Get import tariff and trade data for raw materials and metal bearing products using the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), the global classification system used to describe most world trade goods. Search the database by description.
UN-ECE: United Nations - Working Party on Steel
The Economic Commission for Europe is a forum in which North America, Europe & Asia collaborate on their economic cooperation. The Steel party works on issues such as the availability of raw materials, changes in the steel industry, technological innovation & consumption of Steel in ECE member countries.
USGS: Metal Industry Indicators - U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Geological Survey reports on metals and mining statistics and indicators. Includes economic forecasts for: primary metals, steel, copper, primary aluminum, and aluminum mill products.
