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.

                                     September 2001          September 2000
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
      Commodity                                          
      Grouping                     Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities        2,500,679   1,647,780   3,164,514   1,939,651

Ingots And Steel For Castings        17,517      10,802      39,176      18,289
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           369,674      90,874     492,236     135,028
Structural Shapes Heavy             110,741      37,728      87,473      32,451
Plates Cut Lengths                  173,075     108,091     177,431     112,422
Plates In Coils                      67,902      25,005     104,474      45,514
Rails Standard                        2,273       1,321       3,757       1,355
Bars - Hot Rolled                   497,579     258,243     546,227     276,238
Bars - Light Shaped                  12,222       4,412      23,477       8,495
Bars - Cold Finished                 59,290      59,222      54,442      52,474
Tool Steel                          107,526     151,698     121,838     166,702
Standard Pipe                         9,284      13,675      17,918      24,114
Oil Country Goods                   202,276     231,380     145,100     144,092
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      63,472      40,897     141,533      90,756
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     14,467      13,062       4,890       4,342
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)      10,597       5,196
Mechanical Tubing                    96,925     118,053      81,444     110,768
Pressure Tubing                      24,157      35,041      20,898      26,877
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           1,991       6,751       3,116       6,335
Structural Pipe & Tube                8,422       8,151       4,692       8,283
Pipe For Piling                         316         109      19,021      13,137
Wire Drawn                           58,636      62,795      66,530      71,381
Sheets Hot Rolled                    61,721      31,776      90,423      44,635
Sheets Cold Rolled                  205,222     101,693     333,183     163,230
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      205,774     109,950     390,871     215,526
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       27,451      19,065      73,069      41,264
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          77,780      53,619      82,173      59,274
Strip - Hot Rolled                    3,551       2,502       5,453       3,761
Strip - Cold Rolled                  21,436      51,865      23,075      57,710

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."