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.

                                     October 2001            October 2000
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                      Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities        2,816,449   1,834,483   3,469,900   2,140,457

Ingots And Steel For Castings        22,104      13,011      41,127      19,356
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           436,396     104,605     527,125     144,577
Structural Shapes Heavy             127,311      43,234     103,321      38,167
Plates Cut Lengths                  194,327     121,049     192,628     122,730
Plates In Coils                      76,267      28,192     114,994      50,740
Rails Standard                        2,275       1,324       3,787       1,376
Bars - Hot Rolled                   555,471     284,702     604,422     305,729
Bars - Light Shaped                  14,138       5,262      24,337       8,778
Bars - Cold Finished                 64,893      65,456      60,997      59,500
Tool Steel                          120,747     168,483     136,060     186,769
Standard Pipe                        10,295      15,193      18,730      25,187
Oil Country Goods                   221,280     252,096     166,293     164,653
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      77,036      51,300     141,537      90,865
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     14,503      13,119      10,510       7,826
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)      10,730       5,353
Mechanical Tubing                   106,421     130,399      90,532     122,039
Pressure Tubing                      27,026      39,998      23,033      29,525
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           2,334       7,986       3,425       7,304
Structural Pipe & Tube                9,903       9,335       5,419       9,199
Pipe For Piling                         394         148      19,032      13,144
Wire Drawn                           65,952      70,490      73,897      79,617
Sheets Hot Rolled                    67,857      34,849      99,833      49,296
Sheets Cold Rolled                  221,794     110,399     365,680     181,069
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      236,881     126,092     427,778     236,226
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       31,400      22,195      80,726      45,710
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          81,508      56,189      92,487      67,200
Strip - Hot Rolled                    4,415       2,957       5,853       4,084
Strip - Cold Rolled                  23,520      56,419      25,609      64,438

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."