Seasonally Adjusted

       Exhibit 2a. U.S. Imports For Consumption of Alloy Steel Products:
                              (Census Basis)

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


                                      June 2001               June 2000
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                      Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities        1,579,521   1,090,227   2,135,922   1,275,681

Ingots And Steel For Castings        11,056       6,426      29,642      12,894
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           163,883      47,083     367,897      97,043
Structural Shapes Heavy              69,749      23,779      59,239      21,554
Plates Cut Lengths                  101,804      68,650     116,777      74,290
Plates In Coils                      44,965      16,212      63,060      26,779
Rails Standard                        1,591         784       3,542       1,113
Bars - Hot Rolled                   327,351     172,246     370,192     182,389
Bars - Light Shaped                   6,020       2,446      16,783       5,942
Bars - Cold Finished                 38,192      39,014      36,972      34,088
Tool Steel                           77,383     109,477      81,207     111,175
Standard Pipe                         7,430      10,716      10,379      14,219
Oil Country Goods                   145,011     159,558      80,339      77,543
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      27,129      15,149     139,698      89,464
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter      3,983       3,908       2,182       2,237
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)         114          77
Mechanical Tubing                    69,421      84,645      50,739      69,711
Pressure Tubing                      13,620      18,374      13,936      18,464
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           1,004       3,613       2,682       5,182
Structural Pipe & Tube                5,529       5,284       2,893       4,918
Pipe For Piling                         310         105      18,601      12,957
Wire Drawn                           38,777      41,553      43,018      46,419
Sheets Hot Rolled                    41,323      21,360      54,477      27,307
Sheets Cold Rolled                  154,403      76,244     211,653     101,349
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      136,634      72,669     239,657     131,218
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       18,792      12,164      45,578      25,614
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          56,690      39,110      56,951      40,114
Strip - Hot Rolled                    2,719       1,869       3,058       2,080
Strip - Cold Rolled                  14,752      37,787      14,655      39,545

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."