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.
 
 
                                     June 2002               June 2001
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
   Commodity
   Grouping                       Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities        1,799,725   1,029,276   1,579,521   1,090,227
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings         7,177       4,813      11,056       6,426
Blooms, Billets And Slabs           451,421      86,795     163,883      47,083
Structural Shapes Heavy              49,963      17,321      69,749      23,779
Plates Cut Lengths                  130,911      67,505     101,804      68,650
Plates In Coils                      50,054      17,400      44,965      16,212
Rails Standard                        2,261       1,538       1,591         784
Bars - Hot Rolled                   344,214     165,166     327,351     172,246
Bars - Light Shaped                  12,053       5,082       6,020       2,446
Bars - Cold Finished                 22,539      28,074      38,192      39,014
Tool Steel                           62,737      83,727      77,383     109,477
Standard Pipe                         6,148      11,632       7,430      10,716
Oil Country Goods                    66,942      81,375     145,011     159,558
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter      78,687      48,972      27,129      15,149
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter        865       4,259       3,983       3,908
Line Pipe - Not Specified               (-)         (-)         (-)         (-)
Mechanical Tubing                    50,805      71,823      69,421      84,645
Pressure Tubing                      28,565      60,301      13,620      18,374
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           1,735       5,006       1,004       3,613
Structural Pipe & Tube               12,617       9,854       5,529       5,284
Pipe For Piling                         378         193         310         105
Wire Drawn                           48,014      46,868      38,777      41,553
Sheets Hot Rolled                    42,199      19,625      41,323      21,360
Sheets Cold Rolled                   70,010      32,341     154,403      76,244
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      190,254     100,000     136,634      72,669
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       18,454      14,806      18,792      12,164
Sheets & Strip - Electrical          35,504      23,127      56,690      39,110
Strip - Hot Rolled                    4,722       2,517       2,719       1,869
Strip - Cold Rolled                  10,499      19,156      14,752      37,787
 
CONTACT: For more information, contact Haydn R. Mearkle (301-763-2246) or Nick
         Orsini (301-763-2311), 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."