Not Seasonally Adjusted

         Exhibit 2. U.S. Imports For Consumption of 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        2,438,583     982,509   2,091,810     972,201

Ingots And Steel For Castings         3,775       5,584       6,253       5,298
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           632,217     117,896     339,687      84,395
Wire Rods                           173,375      57,602     114,940      44,589
Structural Shapes Heavy              68,603      22,538     110,708      39,628
Steel Piling                          9,659       4,747       8,774       4,840
Plates Cut Lengths                   91,804      38,257      54,615      27,839
Plates In Coils                      53,384      16,816      95,384      25,661
Rails Standard                       16,771       8,031      33,924      15,750
Rails All Other                       1,107         505       1,631       1,140
Railroad Accessories                    919         671       2,826       1,551
Bars - Hot Rolled                   122,789      58,467      96,381      47,667
Bars - Light Shaped                  11,882       6,916      17,131       7,357
Bars - Reinforcing                  126,221      25,231     115,821      27,187
Bars - Cold Finished                 25,337      31,767      26,556      32,450
Tool Steel                           11,332      14,430      13,979      20,526
Standard Pipe                       105,189      45,117      85,020      41,007
Oil Country Goods                    56,428      42,410      66,312      49,667
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      48,429      24,539      24,226      13,528
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     14,829       9,747      43,763      26,621
Line Pipe - Not Specified             2,252         897       9,204       3,680
Mechanical Tubing                    41,196      35,285      37,234      33,045
Pressure Tubing                       9,138      14,590       5,525       5,816
Stainless Pipe & Tubing               6,447      23,590       6,802      27,893
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           1,619       2,868       1,989       2,372
Structural Pipe & Tube               34,256      15,135      39,039      18,745
Pipe For Piling                       4,918       2,137         512         231
Wire Drawn                           51,978      44,130      56,641      50,660
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                   181,922      46,999     244,219      68,184
Sheets Cold Rolled                  200,014      88,577     218,344     108,443
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      176,904      80,494      98,091      48,820
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       15,412       8,313      15,051       7,738
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      32,778      19,819      16,771      11,912
Sheets & Strip - Electrical           9,067       5,867      11,446       8,299
Strip - Hot Rolled                    5,548       2,491       6,605       3,066
Strip - Cold Rolled                  12,032      19,072      13,739      25,153

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."