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.
 
 
                                     April 2002              April 2001
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                     Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities        1,256,563     725,112   1,046,891     726,831
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings         5,539       3,643       7,111       4,290
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           304,787      58,924     130,821      36,455
Structural Shapes Heavy              33,689      11,588      40,093      13,998
Plates Cut Lengths                   97,614      52,449      56,533      40,710
Plates In Coils                      25,729       9,000      26,684      10,137
Rails Standard                        1,330         925       1,204         500
Bars - Hot Rolled                   231,121     112,557     210,614     111,749
Bars - Light Shaped                   8,361       3,429       3,181       1,353
Bars - Cold Finished                 17,463      21,050      23,496      24,977
Tool Steel                           40,970      55,875      54,207      76,500
Standard Pipe                         3,433       6,304       4,290       5,940
Oil Country Goods                    49,011      58,911      98,528     108,339
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      60,926      38,664       7,007       3,895
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter        720       3,676       2,240       1,959
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                    33,554      46,713      46,679      57,330
Pressure Tubing                      20,011      41,617       9,078      11,413
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified             943       3,355         544       2,009
Structural Pipe & Tube                8,687       6,755       4,058       3,728
Pipe For Piling                         201         106         310         105
Wire Drawn                           30,141      30,349      25,618      27,820
Sheets Hot Rolled                    26,189      12,893      26,148      13,994
Sheets Cold Rolled                   62,646      28,179     110,182      54,990
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      137,672      72,173      92,501      49,397
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       14,685      11,254      14,062       9,064
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          29,636      18,634      39,680      27,396
Strip - Hot Rolled                    4,376       2,325       1,341         854
Strip - Cold Rolled                   7,128      13,767      10,681      27,929
 
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."