Not Seasonally Adjusted

       Exhibit 2c.  U.S. Imports For Consumption of Carbon (Non-Alloy)
                        Steel Products: (Census Basis)

            Quantity in metric tons/value In thousands of dollars.
                 Details may not equal totals due to rounding.

                                       March 2001            March 2000
                                       Cumulative To         Cumulative To
                                       Date - Final          Date - Final
     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                       Quantity     Value    Quantity     Value
                                              
Total Selected Commodities         5,250,925  1,842,104  7,569,056  2,523,058

Ingots And Steel For Castings          3,273      2,421      2,481      2,294
Blooms, Billets And Slabs          1,135,195    206,203  1,958,969    412,728
Wire Rods                            484,425    136,949    565,406    161,538
Structural Shapes Heavy              198,598     71,648    356,462    123,937
Steel Piling                          35,329     18,812     42,591     22,215
Plates Cut Lengths                   123,004     37,067    100,906     31,229
Plates In Coils                      143,496     36,619    367,747     96,388
Rails Standard                        67,591     33,610     57,194     27,510
Rails All Other                        4,413      2,597      8,720      4,870
Railroad Accessories                   4,842      2,672        537        340
Bars - Hot Rolled                    146,468     56,713    202,454     76,749
Bars - Light Shaped                   35,540     12,083     75,194     25,057
Bars - Reinforcing                   345,874     77,326    450,979     87,665
Bars - Cold Finished                  41,650     29,347     52,585     37,221
Standard Pipe                        253,654    117,671    253,991    121,230
Oil Country Goods                    137,731     72,684     88,823     47,191
Line Pipe >16 Inches In Diameter      78,831     40,733     99,401     46,824
Line Pipe <=16 Inches In Diameter     82,753     48,952     55,778     27,463
Line Pipe - Not Specified             23,307      8,959     32,128     11,231
Mechanical Tubing                     77,665     57,893    104,659     74,697
Pressure Tubing                        7,197      6,928      4,403      4,291
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified            4,313      5,595      4,032      4,395
Structural Pipe & Tube               108,965     51,932    121,083     60,074
Pipe For Piling                        2,029        947      3,964      2,058
Wire Drawn                           129,922     93,849    141,749    101,273
Black Plate                           38,906     22,481     27,011     15,550
Tin Plate                             73,060     42,564    111,678     61,932
Tin Free Steel                        35,203     24,907     60,101     36,004
Sheets Hot Rolled                    592,466    158,917  1,414,880    402,283
Sheets Cold Rolled                   460,974    157,232    341,399    131,866
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       249,112    118,664    330,304    168,969
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        33,251     16,054     33,772     16,356
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat       51,279     35,562     58,318     42,860
Strip - Hot Rolled                    14,990      6,550     11,308      5,147
Strip - Cold Rolled                   25,617     28,964     28,051     31,625

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."