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.


                                    January 2002            January 2001
                                    Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                    Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity                                           
     Grouping                     Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
                                             
Total Selected Commodities        1,996,629     635,731   1,784,972     653,946

Ingots And Steel For Castings            67       2,313       3,189       2,324
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           537,409      84,670     299,907      56,552
Wire Rods                           167,319      48,595     110,007      35,338
Structural Shapes Heavy              58,488      18,259     101,058      35,670
Steel Piling                          9,659       4,747       8,774       4,840
Plates Cut Lengths                   56,150      15,828      31,950       9,211
Plates In Coils                      44,413      11,230      87,947      21,816
Rails Standard                       16,728       7,988      33,556      15,659
Rails All Other                       1,107         505       1,631       1,140
Railroad Accessories                    919         671       2,826       1,551
Bars - Hot Rolled                    57,654      21,839      49,715      19,379
Bars - Light Shaped                   9,158       3,049      15,258       5,045
Bars - Reinforcing                  126,221      25,231     115,821      27,187
Bars - Cold Finished                 11,668       8,177      14,475       9,946
Standard Pipe                       104,524      44,026      83,725      39,185
Oil Country Goods                    38,872      19,080      45,457      24,077
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      39,461      18,895      21,814      12,161
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     14,401       7,025      41,868      25,267
Line Pipe - Not Specified             2,252         897       9,204       3,680
Mechanical Tubing                    29,930      19,620      27,392      20,578
Pressure Tubing                       3,119       2,633       2,975       2,374
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           1,405       2,014       1,899       1,949
Structural Pipe & Tube               32,691      13,936      38,676      18,077
Pipe For Piling                       4,883       2,117         454         199
Wire Drawn                           41,773      27,591      47,201      33,897
Black Plate                          26,024      11,312      11,840       7,215
Tin Plate                            42,642      23,130      28,541      16,124
Tin Free Steel                       10,384       6,534      12,285       8,104
Sheets Hot Rolled                   173,218      41,503     237,484      63,587
Sheets Cold Rolled                  139,255      46,643     172,163      61,210
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      140,105      61,918      82,623      40,211
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       10,627       4,904      11,324       5,329
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      32,778      19,819      16,771      11,912
Strip - Hot Rolled                    3,750       1,414       6,286       2,741
Strip - Cold Rolled                   7,574       7,617       8,877      10,411

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."