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.

                                       May 2001                May 2000
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                      Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities        9,059,410   3,167,069  13,090,148   4,430,665

Ingots And Steel For Castings         3,568       5,301       5,675       5,370
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         1,815,515     331,910   3,402,375     745,363
Wire Rods                           850,592     240,683     937,681     268,066
Structural Shapes Heavy             305,726     107,728     643,910     234,853
Steel Piling                         67,877      36,840      71,352      36,861
Plates Cut Lengths                  205,229      62,149     197,128      61,083
Plates In Coils                     240,913      60,134     613,071     166,824
Rails Standard                       86,525      42,170      95,581      48,512
Rails All Other                       7,609       4,199      13,868       7,793
Railroad Accessories                  6,334       3,688       1,028         576
Bars - Hot Rolled                   240,418      92,838     353,788     135,174
Bars - Light Shaped                  54,283      18,612     128,034      44,523
Bars - Reinforcing                  621,282     137,363     698,276     140,466
Bars - Cold Finished                 71,790      50,006      95,491      65,604
Standard Pipe                       451,198     203,227     452,769     215,274
Oil Country Goods                   311,219     133,708     169,683      89,549
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     269,621     142,298     166,350      76,032
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter    126,107      76,869     103,414      51,562
Line Pipe - Not Specified            37,638      14,957      49,285      17,681
Mechanical Tubing                   138,778     100,332     174,983     126,345
Pressure Tubing                      13,652      12,642      10,087      11,222
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           7,788      10,377       8,032       8,703
Structural Pipe & Tube              185,707      85,724     202,914     100,971
Pipe For Piling                       3,143       1,412       6,885       3,301
Wire Drawn                          218,474     155,791     242,294     171,909
Black Plate                          60,817      35,292      46,415      27,719
Tin Plate                           135,380      80,866     155,686      87,623
Tin Free Steel                       67,254      45,375      78,161      47,536
Sheets Hot Rolled                   984,622     258,064   2,581,558     748,913
Sheets Cold Rolled                  838,993     275,713     653,596     256,058
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      411,920     195,123     511,193     268,469
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       58,415      27,240      57,248      28,476
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      94,624      61,363      97,812      71,880
Strip - Hot Rolled                   24,683      10,889      19,892       9,017
Strip - Cold Rolled                  41,717      46,186      44,633      51,359

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."