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.

                                       February 2001         February 2000
                                       Cumulative To         Cumulative To
                                       Date - Final          Date - Final
     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                       Quantity     Value    Quantity     Value
                                              
Total Selected Commodities         3,873,220  1,807,454  5,942,708  2,381,423

Ingots And Steel For Castings          9,626      8,085      7,167      5,045
Blooms, Billets And Slabs            730,125    175,775  1,669,269    397,778
Wire Rods                            191,690     79,713    399,981    132,545
Structural Shapes Heavy              178,327     64,907    214,538     77,556
Steel Piling                          23,575     12,676     27,246     14,239
Plates Cut Lengths                   128,872     57,377    113,817     58,283
Plates In Coils                      127,585     37,003    277,397     83,141
Rails Standard                        39,197     18,430     39,565     18,740
Rails All Other                        2,931      1,758      6,351      3,444
Railroad Accessories                   3,520      1,988        241        144
Bars - Hot Rolled                    194,428     97,931    241,765    112,847
Bars - Light Shaped                   25,919     11,416     54,779     21,238
Bars - Reinforcing                   220,419     49,586    235,131     45,871
Bars - Cold Finished                  51,701     66,107     57,704     64,609
Tool Steel                            26,768     39,073     25,740     35,593
Standard Pipe                        160,328     76,646    170,034     83,729
Oil Country Goods                    121,948     91,483     72,078     44,581
Line Pipe >16 Inches In Diameter      48,689     24,898     87,020     43,223
Line Pipe <=16 Inches In Diameter     59,980     36,544     40,142     18,874
Line Pipe - Not Specified             13,420      5,407     23,710      8,275
Mechanical Tubing                     75,094     66,952     77,244     67,688
Pressure Tubing                        9,268     10,265      8,394      9,376
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               12,844     51,677     14,216     48,038
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            3,455      4,798      4,167      4,967
Structural Pipe & Tube                76,896     37,197     75,632     38,860
Pipe For Piling                          689        348     14,575     10,188
Wire Drawn                           104,295     94,893    107,273     93,812
Black Plate                           21,666     13,133     21,971     12,765
Tin Plate                             50,445     29,072     73,235     40,250
Tin Free Steel                        22,448     16,514     38,919     23,483
Sheets Hot Rolled                    428,634    121,566    977,755    283,641
Sheets Cold Rolled                   388,936    198,405    339,901    211,211
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       203,172    100,394    299,098    152,554
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        26,442     13,918     33,454     17,112
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat       32,839     23,230     39,225     28,856
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           19,417     14,143     16,633     11,430
Strip - Hot Rolled                    11,166      5,225      9,009      4,595
Strip - Cold Rolled                   26,465     48,922     28,331     52,840

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."