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.
 
                                      February 2002           February 2001
                                      Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                      Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                       Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities          707,764     395,646     475,342     341,048
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings         4,381       2,654       3,746       2,026
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           178,868      34,172      60,221      15,004
Structural Shapes Heavy              16,976       5,815      18,759       6,811
Plates Cut Lengths                   61,350      32,920      28,847      20,583
Plates In Coils                      10,804       3,769      11,321       4,625
Rails Standard                        1,019         604       1,125         441
Bars - Hot Rolled                   119,698      58,498      91,096      49,390
Bars - Light Shaped                   3,223       1,369       1,751         667
Bars - Cold Finished                  9,588      11,449      10,896      11,221
Tool Steel                           23,043      29,135      26,768      39,073
Standard Pipe                         1,508       2,941       1,990       2,879
Oil Country Goods                    23,566      33,082      40,945      48,809
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      27,831      17,374       4,040       2,288
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter        537       3,340       1,969       1,429
Line Pipe - Not Specified
Mechanical Tubing                    16,572      22,993      22,735      27,758
Pressure Tubing                       8,821      18,028       4,270       5,700
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified             426       1,680         198         915
Structural Pipe & Tube                3,471       2,890       1,039       1,527
Pipe For Piling                          35          20          59          31
Wire Drawn                           13,498      13,947      13,204      14,082
Sheets Hot Rolled                    17,472       9,022      11,225       6,146
Sheets Cold Rolled                   51,776      22,186      50,281      27,153
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped       73,882      38,057      36,592      20,085
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt        9,271       6,430       7,337       4,685
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          23,431      14,063      19,417      14,143
Strip - Hot Rolled                    2,916       1,539         540         314
Strip - Cold Rolled                   3,800       7,670       4,969      13,262
 
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."