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.
  
                                     June 2001               June 2000
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                     Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities       11,048,770   3,826,145  15,666,083   5,354,486

Ingots And Steel For Castings         3,610       5,311       5,681       5,379
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         2,170,915     394,737   3,803,536     838,944
Wire Rods                         1,127,592     311,765   1,150,366     330,822
Structural Shapes Heavy             365,596     126,663     791,970     291,051
Steel Piling                         83,096      44,812      84,319      43,316
Plates Cut Lengths                  248,603      74,917     242,501      75,516
Plates In Coils                     308,881      76,242     754,853     208,007
Rails Standard                      105,653      50,907     116,582      58,385
Rails All Other                       8,984       5,093      17,339       9,633
Railroad Accessories                  6,969       4,152       1,703         955
Bars - Hot Rolled                   291,521     111,367     440,268     168,625
Bars - Light Shaped                  67,078      22,723     149,948      51,908
Bars - Reinforcing                  773,372     170,109     894,485     182,745
Bars - Cold Finished                 84,389      58,701     116,073      79,792
Standard Pipe                       528,176     238,906     555,804     264,711
Oil Country Goods                   378,413     169,203     204,832     107,571
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     375,319     196,647     204,244      92,029
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter    140,736      83,914     116,292      58,542
Line Pipe - Not Specified            41,964      16,623      55,379      20,138
Mechanical Tubing                   166,603     119,390     213,641     153,280
Pressure Tubing                      15,378      14,323      11,472      12,629
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified          10,096      12,892      11,163      11,559
Structural Pipe & Tube              218,739     100,719     244,467     121,963
Pipe For Piling                       3,791       1,686       7,311       3,513
Wire Drawn                          265,607     187,015     291,073     206,577
Black Plate                          69,133      39,976      57,295      34,291
Tin Plate                           160,655      95,920     180,606     102,300
Tin Free Steel                       78,019      52,178      87,897      53,570
Sheets Hot Rolled                 1,170,338     305,709   3,121,481     913,326
Sheets Cold Rolled                1,025,999     330,224     866,853     343,937
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      494,084     231,922     604,229     318,539
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       68,438      31,464      69,070      34,679
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat     113,282      72,658     117,600      86,051
Strip - Hot Rolled                   28,924      12,857      23,457      10,721
Strip - Cold Rolled                  48,813      54,420      52,291      59,482

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."