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.
 
 
                                      March 2002              March 2001
                                      Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                      Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                       Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities          993,407     559,766     758,203     527,304
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings         4,964       3,117       5,404       3,351
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           259,702      49,951     110,938      28,565
Structural Shapes Heavy              23,290       7,819      26,738       9,841
Plates Cut Lengths                   81,283      44,412      43,812      31,077
Plates In Coils                      19,554       6,873      17,524       6,866
Rails Standard                        1,063         631       1,179         483
Bars - Hot Rolled                   173,852      85,344     155,984      82,081
Bars - Light Shaped                   6,137       2,366       2,228         959
Bars - Cold Finished                 14,056      17,159      16,683      17,617
Tool Steel                           31,261      43,157      39,573      57,915
Standard Pipe                         2,555       4,907       3,247       4,524
Oil Country Goods                    31,321      43,449      62,391      73,276
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      41,240      25,990       4,043       2,314
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter        700       3,543       2,186       1,888
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                    24,005      33,095      33,579      41,354
Pressure Tubing                      13,822      28,262       7,169       8,892
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified             695       2,510         312       1,413
Structural Pipe & Tube                5,376       4,353       3,138       2,771
Pipe For Piling                         108          57         116          60
Wire Drawn                           20,841      21,338      19,443      21,087
Sheets Hot Rolled                    22,326      11,091      18,379       9,713
Sheets Cold Rolled                   58,065      25,578      81,318      42,066
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      108,541      56,756      54,184      29,776
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       12,272       8,914      11,410       7,301
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          26,637      16,329      28,917      20,383
Strip - Hot Rolled                    3,957       2,096         855         523
Strip - Cold Rolled                   5,786      10,669       7,453      21,209
 
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."