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.
 
 
                                     May 2002                May 2001
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
   Commodity
   Grouping                       Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities        1,491,199     868,408   1,348,991     924,448
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings         6,166       4,178       8,750       5,214
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           351,603      67,972     161,628      45,872
Structural Shapes Heavy              44,100      15,611      61,817      20,955
Plates Cut Lengths                  111,551      59,490      75,266      53,780
Plates In Coils                      38,374      13,138      36,225      13,024
Rails Standard                        2,061       1,373       1,449         634
Bars - Hot Rolled                   280,211     135,509     272,391     144,935
Bars - Light Shaped                  10,681       4,382       4,735       2,000
Bars - Cold Finished                 20,111      24,984      29,365      30,990
Tool Steel                           51,969      69,476      68,192      96,008
Standard Pipe                         4,552       8,611       6,340       9,154
Oil Country Goods                    58,970      71,287     122,041     132,569
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      68,950      43,417      17,669       8,966
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter        838       4,108       2,753       2,422
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                    42,831      60,092      61,251      74,439
Pressure Tubing                      24,038      49,813      10,986      14,100
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           1,371       4,227         703       2,458
Structural Pipe & Tube               10,459       8,053       4,801       4,645
Pipe For Piling                         205         113         310         105
Wire Drawn                           39,069      38,722      32,174      34,697
Sheets Hot Rolled                    32,561      15,518      34,175      17,736
Sheets Cold Rolled                   65,191      29,701     134,284      66,852
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      162,076      85,332     122,644      65,113
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       16,573      13,123      16,314      10,599
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          33,453      21,471      47,854      32,798
Strip - Hot Rolled                    4,418       2,388       2,243       1,518
Strip - Cold Rolled                   8,820      16,320      12,631      32,867
 
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."