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.

                                      August 2001             August 2000
                                      Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                      Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                     Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities       15,144,195   5,198,826  21,302,246   7,313,493

Ingots And Steel For Castings         6,849       8,032       5,730       5,413
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         3,208,749     585,716   5,092,942   1,142,995
Wire Rods                         1,588,447     436,340   1,692,084     482,853
Structural Shapes Heavy             493,741     172,220   1,159,598     428,268
Steel Piling                        101,668      55,378     118,927      61,220
Plates Cut Lengths                  345,252     103,631     403,706     125,208
Plates In Coils                     377,993      94,365     980,981     274,220
Rails Standard                      134,237      64,021     158,688      78,856
Rails All Other                      11,091       6,690      20,048      11,274
Railroad Accessories                  8,713       5,176       2,378       1,559
Bars - Hot Rolled                   396,614     150,538     601,613     230,285
Bars - Light Shaped                  92,090      30,439     201,861      70,701
Bars - Reinforcing                1,114,693     243,858   1,249,794     256,631
Bars - Cold Finished                111,754      76,932     151,540     103,957
Standard Pipe                       716,750     319,394     774,717     370,509
Oil Country Goods                   487,933     228,326     283,255     148,786
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     570,747     303,181     259,988     117,753
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter    181,718     108,064     153,240      78,101
Line Pipe - Not Specified            60,938      27,168      65,298      24,653
Mechanical Tubing                   226,601     158,361     282,031     204,229
Pressure Tubing                      23,482      22,111      15,580      16,100
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified          14,184      18,238      14,197      15,870
Structural Pipe & Tube              288,366     131,154     328,103     162,614
Pipe For Piling                       6,167       2,550       9,666       4,778
Wire Drawn                          355,611     248,497     383,761     272,882
Black Plate                          87,841      48,998      80,745      47,552
Tin Plate                           226,327     132,869     233,467     133,192
Tin Free Steel                      103,885      67,815     110,029      67,196
Sheets Hot Rolled                 1,380,262     360,654   4,068,842   1,199,802
Sheets Cold Rolled                1,423,278     453,465   1,272,883     510,436
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      659,238     309,489     779,513     412,889
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       83,962      38,856      91,875      46,616
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat     153,339      98,382     154,429     112,912
Strip - Hot Rolled                   37,166      16,240      31,279      14,412
Strip - Cold Rolled                  64,512      71,678      69,458      78,772
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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."