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.

                                     December 2001           December 2000
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                     Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities        3,512,272   2,201,472   4,070,469   2,533,870

Ingots And Steel For Castings        25,555      15,070      45,242      21,884
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           654,555     147,255     629,427     172,032
Structural Shapes Heavy             158,003      53,478     120,176      44,704
Plates Cut Lengths                  243,774     146,387     221,684     142,147
Plates In Coils                      89,937      32,923     133,802      59,563
Rails Standard                        2,442       1,460       4,944       1,797
Bars - Hot Rolled                   663,944     340,042     710,166     361,372
Bars - Light Shaped                  17,799       6,712      27,936       9,956
Bars - Cold Finished                 77,742      79,313      75,826      74,740
Tool Steel                          141,585     196,482     162,450     225,232
Standard Pipe                        12,056      18,166      21,244      28,455
Oil Country Goods                   248,352     284,487     213,925     212,882
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      95,023      62,593     143,815      92,612
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     15,084      14,028      10,579       8,040
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)      10,768       5,372
Mechanical Tubing                   121,494     150,174     110,674     148,844
Pressure Tubing                      36,217      55,842      26,270      34,263
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           2,709      10,034       3,587       7,916
Structural Pipe & Tube               12,776      11,625       6,593      10,719
Pipe For Piling                       3,835       2,194      19,066      13,163
Wire Drawn                           79,499      84,577      89,530      96,138
Sheets Hot Rolled                    86,091      43,729     120,303      59,703
Sheets Cold Rolled                  261,819     128,662     428,096     215,712
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      292,180     154,430     493,402     271,960
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       37,844      26,906      92,495      52,710
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          99,162      67,982     111,250      80,265
Strip - Hot Rolled                    5,798       3,959       6,833       4,845
Strip - Cold Rolled                  26,996      62,961      30,386      76,842

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."