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.
 
 
                                     February 2002           February 2001
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
 
     Commodity
     Grouping                     Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities        5,483,227   2,055,195   3,873,220   1,807,454
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings        12,150      12,904       9,626       8,085
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         1,633,903     306,293     730,125     175,775
Wire Rods                           290,498     104,702     191,690      79,713
Structural Shapes Heavy             110,026      35,785     178,327      64,907
Steel Piling                         21,508      11,122      23,575      12,676
Plates Cut Lengths                  174,131      71,876     128,872      57,377
Plates In Coils                     131,642      38,773     127,585      37,003
Rails Standard                       36,739      17,412      39,197      18,430
Rails All Other                       1,857         883       2,931       1,758
Railroad Accessories                  1,298         959       3,520       1,988
Bars - Hot Rolled                   253,169     116,036     194,428      97,931
Bars - Light Shaped                  31,869      13,938      25,919      11,416
Bars - Reinforcing                  389,777      78,538     220,419      49,586
Bars - Cold Finished                 47,136      56,231      51,701      66,107
Tool Steel                           23,043      29,135      26,768      39,073
Standard Pipe                       229,662      95,142     160,328      76,646
Oil Country Goods                    84,269      64,422     121,948      91,483
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     132,133      70,706      48,689      24,898
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     30,131      17,062      59,980      36,544
Line Pipe - Not Specified            15,338       5,742      13,420       5,407
Mechanical Tubing                    80,340      62,454      75,094      66,952
Pressure Tubing                      14,367      23,068       9,268      10,265
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              11,753      43,815      12,844      51,677
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           3,318       5,100       3,455       4,798
Structural Pipe & Tube               66,164      29,485      76,896      37,197
Pipe For Piling                       6,421       2,691         689         348
Wire Drawn                          100,689      84,821     104,295      94,893
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                   463,077     120,197     428,634     121,566
Sheets Cold Rolled                  378,927     164,100     388,936     198,405
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      368,858     167,854     203,172     100,394
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       48,128      22,574      26,442      13,918
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      68,399      38,753      32,839      23,230
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          23,431      14,063      19,417      14,143
Strip - Hot Rolled                   11,866       5,007      11,166       5,225
Strip - Cold Rolled                  22,741      37,593      26,465      48,922
 
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."