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.
 
                                     April 2002              April 2001
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
     Commodity
     Grouping                     Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities        7,690,421   2,433,045   7,302,610   2,523,514
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings         3,068       4,530       3,535       5,267
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         2,134,137     344,145   1,555,332     284,169
Wire Rods                           828,286     229,229     684,893     192,460
Structural Shapes Heavy             188,640      59,637     246,608      87,634
Steel Piling                         42,695      22,559      46,275      24,639
Plates Cut Lengths                  197,625      61,930     162,143      48,843
Plates In Coils                     207,671      53,719     204,642      50,697
Rails Standard                       73,649      33,318      81,438      40,093
Rails All Other                       3,788       2,088       6,022       3,500
Railroad Accessories                  3,032       2,121       5,770       3,188
Bars - Hot Rolled                   236,792      87,624     195,872      75,714
Bars - Light Shaped                  48,527      15,221      44,730      15,316
Bars - Reinforcing                  490,992      99,679     474,908     105,437
Bars - Cold Finished                 55,295      36,973      57,885      40,138
Standard Pipe                       351,471     156,470     352,228     160,532
Oil Country Goods                    98,390      52,914     253,874     100,317
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     209,044     118,366     171,574      88,223
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter     70,761      35,648     104,872      65,036
Line Pipe - Not Specified            19,740       7,256      27,638      10,742
Mechanical Tubing                   114,755      75,591     105,491      78,011
Pressure Tubing                      14,767      13,598      10,999      10,134
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           5,816       6,354       5,933       7,663
Structural Pipe & Tube              113,873      50,684     151,458      69,906
Pipe For Piling                       8,037       3,468       2,861       1,259
Wire Drawn                          174,942     114,789     172,271     124,087
Black Plate                          47,056      21,361      49,233      28,049
Tin Plate                           123,902      68,546     105,407      62,572
Tin Free Steel                       45,305      27,290      49,992      34,241
Sheets Hot Rolled                   720,163     181,735     810,417     212,484
Sheets Cold Rolled                  447,442     141,124     662,858     221,843
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      415,187     189,458     320,117     153,607
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       46,844      19,807      48,724      22,857
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat      94,480      56,825      73,320      48,458
Strip - Hot Rolled                   25,076       9,322      20,287       9,028
Strip - Cold Rolled                  29,170      29,670      33,002      37,369
 
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."