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.
 
                                       March 2002              March 2001
                                       Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                       Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                       Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities        7,460,008   2,885,441   6,222,345   2,798,094
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings        15,626      16,365      13,056      11,707
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         2,137,005     425,283   1,307,876     304,751
Wire Rods                           584,781     188,269     499,598     165,678
Structural Shapes Heavy             175,685      56,214     225,923      83,276
Steel Piling                         27,333      14,133      35,329      18,812
Plates Cut Lengths                  267,095     114,418     173,447      82,600
Plates In Coils                     185,429      55,064     164,223      48,466
Rails Standard                       56,750      26,411      68,771      34,093
Rails All Other                       3,014       1,512       4,413       2,597
Railroad Accessories                  2,260       1,644       4,842       2,672
Bars - Hot Rolled                   355,941     164,686     308,578     152,754
Bars - Light Shaped                  47,688      19,651      40,132      18,145
Bars - Reinforcing                  430,839      87,502     345,874      77,326
Bars - Cold Finished                 75,125      85,324      79,224     101,062
Tool Steel                           31,261      43,157      39,573      57,915
Standard Pipe                       289,812     125,504     256,901     122,194
Oil Country Goods                   114,954      86,509     200,122     145,961
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     201,883     116,000      82,874      43,047
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     43,815      23,785      84,939      50,840
Line Pipe - Not Specified            18,538       6,788      23,307       8,959
Mechanical Tubing                   109,271      88,046     111,243      99,247
Pressure Tubing                      23,659      37,217      14,366      15,820
Stainless Pipe & Tubing              17,962      66,686      19,132      77,285
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           4,869       7,378       4,624       7,007
Structural Pipe & Tube               94,156      42,705     112,103      54,703
Pipe For Piling                       7,358       3,102       2,145       1,007
Wire Drawn                          156,462     129,227     156,794     142,312
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                   623,286     163,397     614,064     173,110
Sheets Cold Rolled                  490,208     218,328     597,357     294,747
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      457,777     213,531     303,296     148,440
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       55,410      26,979      44,661      23,355
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      84,205      49,060      51,279      35,562
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          26,637      16,329      28,917      20,383
Strip - Hot Rolled                   19,929       8,162      16,120       7,613
Strip - Cold Rolled                  34,618      56,056      40,071      74,696
 
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."