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.
 
                                     March 2002              March 2001
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                      Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities        6,221,104   1,921,323   5,250,925   1,842,104
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings         2,836       4,402       3,273       2,421
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         1,792,252     285,372   1,135,195     206,203
Wire Rods                           566,577     159,383     484,425     136,949
Structural Shapes Heavy             151,792      46,684     198,598      71,648
Steel Piling                         27,333      14,133      35,329      18,812
Plates Cut Lengths                  177,006      55,379     123,004      37,067
Plates In Coils                     158,660      39,747     143,496      36,619
Rails Standard                       55,687      25,780      67,591      33,610
Rails All Other                       3,014       1,512       4,413       2,597
Railroad Accessories                  2,260       1,644       4,842       2,672
Bars - Hot Rolled                   175,554      65,787     146,468      56,713
Bars - Light Shaped                  39,332      12,028      35,540      12,083
Bars - Reinforcing                  430,839      87,502     345,874      77,326
Bars - Cold Finished                 44,918      29,822      41,650      29,347
Standard Pipe                       287,257     120,597     253,654     117,671
Oil Country Goods                    83,632      43,060     137,731      72,684
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     160,644      90,010      78,831      40,733
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     43,115      20,242      82,753      48,952
Line Pipe - Not Specified            18,538       6,788      23,307       8,959
Mechanical Tubing                    85,266      54,951      77,665      57,893
Pressure Tubing                       9,837       8,955       7,197       6,928
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           4,174       4,868       4,313       5,595
Structural Pipe & Tube               88,781      38,352     108,965      51,932
Pipe For Piling                       7,250       3,044       2,029         947
Wire Drawn                          128,017      84,132     129,922      93,849
Black Plate                          43,665      18,774      38,906      22,481
Tin Plate                           108,840      59,899      73,060      42,564
Tin Free Steel                       36,863      22,347      35,203      24,907
Sheets Hot Rolled                   594,554     147,019     592,466     158,917
Sheets Cold Rolled                  378,717     116,797     460,974     157,232
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      349,236     156,775     249,112     118,664
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       43,137      18,065      33,251      16,054
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      84,205      49,060      51,279      35,562
Strip - Hot Rolled                   15,860       5,803      14,990       6,550
Strip - Cold Rolled                  21,456      22,612      25,617      28,964
 
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."