Not 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.

                                     July 200l               July 2000
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final

     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                      Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities        1,878,456   1,277,951   2,469,261   1,486,784

Ingots And Steel For Castings        13,152       7,942      33,002      14,531
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           236,215      62,040     411,121     110,702
Structural Shapes Heavy              81,907      28,198      68,581      25,125
Plates Cut Lengths                  121,568      80,756     136,154      86,513
Plates In Coils                      50,032      17,962      75,551      32,628
Rails Standard                        2,110       1,174       3,542       1,113
Bars - Hot Rolled                   385,517     200,792     420,000     207,678
Bars - Light Shaped                   7,414       3,006      18,537       6,585
Bars - Cold Finished                 45,849      46,695      42,221      39,923
Tool Steel                           87,997     125,719      92,299     128,308
Standard Pipe                         8,314      12,057      13,486      17,197
Oil Country Goods                   166,721     187,078     102,518      98,568
Line Pipe>16Inches In Diameter       30,992      18,138     140,896      90,394
Line Pipe<=16Inches In Diameter       7,594       7,173       4,814       4,081
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)         660         328
Mechanical Tubing                    79,010      96,437      60,556      83,405
Pressure Tubing                      17,999      25,119      15,235      20,143
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           1,253       4,422       2,873       5,820
Structural Pipe & Tube                6,387       6,003       3,407       5,834
Pipe For Piling                         310         105      18,986      13,122
Wire Drawn                           45,852      49,317      51,789      55,483
Sheets Hot Rolled                    45,346      23,810      66,659      33,139
Sheets Cold Rolled                  173,125      86,003     248,123     118,963
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      159,737      85,079     296,392     162,366
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       20,919      13,977      53,968      30,166
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          62,872      43,539      66,808      46,792
Strip - Hot Rolled                    3,023       2,093       3,792       2,405
Strip - Cold Rolled                  17,242      43,319      17,291      45,472

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."