Not Seasonally Adjusted

  Exhibit 2.  U.S. Imports For Consumption of Steel Products: (Census Basis)
                  Quantity in metric tons/value In thousands of dollars.
                      Details may not equal totals due to rounding.

                                       July 2000               July 1999
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                      Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                     Quantity      Value     Quantity      Value
                                              
Total Selected Commodities       21,618,675   9,232,112  18,251,543   7,166,918

Ingots And Steel For Castings        57,748      47,094      10,346      12,644
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         4,990,332   1,346,078   4,142,471     863,643
Wire Rods                         1,445,825     486,273   1,430,737     433,421
Structural Shapes Heavy           1,069,820     404,936     894,727     271,038
Steel Piling                         95,763      49,219      64,599      34,247
Plates Cut Lengths                  466,146     241,085     570,473     257,027
Plates In Coils                     936,616     303,999     705,808     202,307
Rails Standard                      140,043      69,176     146,436      71,710
Rails All Other                      18,981      10,564      15,819      10,173
Railroad Accessories                  2,039       1,245       2,848       1,522
Bars - Hot Rolled                   960,624     449,778     760,949     375,840
Bars - Light Shaped                 204,099      84,173     154,448      59,123
Bars - Reinforcing                1,078,639     221,224     916,105     191,737
Bars - Cold Finished                231,572     260,116     155,882     173,745
Tool Steel                           92,299     128,308      86,309     128,851
Standard Pipe                       670,635     330,178     432,350     224,309
Oil Country Goods                   358,149     231,910      55,513      51,228
Line Pipe                           580,451     292,506     551,094     262,495
Mechanical Tubing                   309,473     262,080     229,868     197,493
Pressure Tubing                      28,271      34,055      25,230      30,156
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              53,165     188,206      40,976     143,297
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified          15,121      19,170      10,482      13,818
Structural Pipe & Tube              289,646     147,905     255,483     122,712
Pipe For Piling                      26,731      16,882      13,359       6,397
Wire Drawn                          407,144     357,996     393,561     340,771
Black Plate                          74,387      43,228      85,344      47,293
Tin Plate                           209,977     119,339     266,644     150,966
Tin Free Steel                      102,382      62,498     100,959      70,229
Sheets Hot Rolled                 3,694,377   1,122,074   2,244,358     594,204
Sheets Cold Rolled                1,542,324     946,717   1,954,631     871,116
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      995,711     531,458   1,125,201     586,557
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt      132,866      70,093      86,302      45,018
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat     137,188      99,748     114,243      75,758
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          66,808      46,792      57,840      41,103
Strip - Hot Rolled                   32,801      18,026      42,901      20,645
Strip - Cold Rolled                 100,525     187,981     107,248     184,327

CONTACT:  For more information, contact Haydn R. Mearkle (301-457-2246) or
       Nick Orsini (301-457-2311), Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

NOTE:  For information on more detailed data available, please see record
       titled "MORE DETAILED FOREIGN TRADE DATA AVAILABLE."