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.

                                      August 2001             August 2000
                                      Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                      Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                      Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities        2,236,110   1,469,284   2,839,163   1,730,748

Ingots And Steel For Castings        15,632       9,454      36,474      16,512
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           355,538      86,078     442,982     122,182
Structural Shapes Heavy             100,358      34,118      77,963      29,056
Plates Cut Lengths                  144,325      94,542     157,468     101,504
Plates In Coils                      57,498      21,369      90,435      39,153
Rails Standard                        2,227       1,264       3,697       1,279
Bars - Hot Rolled                   443,549     229,880     489,846     246,519
Bars - Light Shaped                   8,698       3,499      22,210       7,960
Bars - Cold Finished                 51,424      53,154      49,854      47,548
Tool Steel                           98,884     139,279     106,622     147,694
Standard Pipe                         8,780      12,865      15,994      21,650
Oil Country Goods                   183,446     206,310     124,310     118,887
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      34,917      20,840     141,506      90,676
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     12,662      10,415       4,870       4,305
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)       8,641       3,957
Mechanical Tubing                    89,355     108,881      68,111      93,973
Pressure Tubing                      21,688      30,894      19,935      25,711
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           1,648       5,918       3,009       6,109
Structural Pipe & Tube                7,741       7,598       3,959       7,167
Pipe For Piling                         310         105      19,021      13,137
Wire Drawn                           53,175      57,247      60,255      64,331
Sheets Hot Rolled                    53,970      27,933      78,633      38,907
Sheets Cold Rolled                  191,121      95,190     301,044     145,811
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      181,572      96,840     347,795     191,374
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       24,455      16,900      64,328      36,294
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          70,683      48,819      75,317      54,242
Strip - Hot Rolled                    3,149       2,164       4,516       2,956
Strip - Cold Rolled                  19,305      47,728      20,366      51,851

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."