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.
 
                                      February 2002           February 2001
                                      Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                      Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                       Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities        4,615,926   1,391,973   3,256,963   1,180,832
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings         2,666       4,289       3,253       2,402
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         1,404,987     219,590     629,954     115,024
Wire Rods                           277,257      83,765     181,257      59,992
Structural Shapes Heavy              92,638      28,818     159,101      56,623
Steel Piling                         21,508      11,122      23,575      12,676
Plates Cut Lengths                  107,547      30,528      96,251      28,803
Plates In Coils                     115,212      28,487     113,829      28,702
Rails Standard                       35,720      16,808      38,072      17,989
Rails All Other                       1,857         883       2,931       1,758
Railroad Accessories                  1,298         959       3,520       1,988
Bars - Hot Rolled                   128,499      47,461      98,971      38,849
Bars - Light Shaped                  26,758       8,119      22,775       7,774
Bars - Reinforcing                  389,777      78,538     220,419      49,586
Bars - Cold Finished                 25,679      16,914      27,162      19,207
Standard Pipe                       228,154      92,201     158,338      73,766
Oil Country Goods                    60,702      31,340      81,003      42,673
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     104,302      53,332      44,648      22,610
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     29,594      13,722      58,011      35,115
Line Pipe - Not Specified            15,338       5,742      13,420       5,407
Mechanical Tubing                    63,768      39,461      52,359      39,194
Pressure Tubing                       5,546       5,041       4,997       4,565
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           2,892       3,420       3,256       3,883
Structural Pipe & Tube               62,693      26,595      75,857      35,669
Pipe For Piling                       6,386       2,671         630         317
Wire Drawn                           81,844      54,162      86,095      62,346
Black Plate                          40,509      16,755      21,666      13,133
Tin Plate                            94,665      51,511      50,445      29,072
Tin Free Steel                       29,295      17,690      22,448      16,514
Sheets Hot Rolled                   442,077     107,733     415,230     112,535
Sheets Cold Rolled                  291,501      91,231     301,733     105,966
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      294,976     129,797     166,580      80,308
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       38,858      16,144      19,105       9,233
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      68,399      38,753      32,839      23,230
Strip - Hot Rolled                    8,860       3,237      10,482       4,590
Strip - Cold Rolled                  14,162      15,152      16,748      19,331
 
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."