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.
 
                                     June 2002               June 2001
                                     Cumulative To           Cumulative To
                                     Date - Final            Date - Final
   Commodity
   Grouping                       Quantity     Value      Quantity     Value
 
Total Selected Commodities       11,270,325   3,612,211  11,048,770   3,826,145
 
Ingots And Steel For Castings         3,143       4,595       3,610       5,311
Blooms, Billets And Slabs         3,153,986     538,522   2,170,915     394,737
Wire Rods                         1,355,372     371,459   1,127,592     311,765
Structural Shapes Heavy             299,730      95,454     365,596     126,663
Steel Piling                         72,270      38,663      83,096      44,812
Plates Cut Lengths                  224,660      71,357     248,603      74,917
Plates In Coils                     333,789      89,097     308,881      76,242
Rails Standard                      108,729      49,321     105,653      50,907
Rails All Other                       6,751       3,655       8,984       5,093
Railroad Accessories                  6,377       4,420       6,969       4,152
Bars - Hot Rolled                   349,737     129,269     291,521     111,367
Bars - Light Shaped                  72,818      23,586      67,078      22,723
Bars - Reinforcing                  660,313     136,198     773,372     170,109
Bars - Cold Finished                 78,247      52,153      84,389      58,701
Standard Pipe                       498,294     225,561     528,176     238,906
Oil Country Goods                   146,303      79,415     378,413     169,203
Line Pipe>16 Inches In Diameter     272,648     160,052     375,319     196,647
Line Pipe<=16 Inches In Diameter    106,685      54,438     140,736      83,914
Line Pipe - Not Specified            39,285      13,376      41,964      16,623
Mechanical Tubing                   181,167     118,945     166,603     119,390
Pressure Tubing                      20,831      19,134      15,378      14,323
Pipe & Tubing Nonclassified           8,890       9,817      10,096      12,892
Structural Pipe & Tube              168,514      79,234     218,739     100,719
Pipe For Piling                      10,492       4,432       3,791       1,686
Wire Drawn                          276,116     178,855     265,607     187,015
Black Plate                          57,395      27,882      69,133      39,976
Tin Plate                           151,941      84,026     160,655      95,920
Tin Free Steel                       57,479      34,357      78,019      52,178
Sheets Hot Rolled                 1,138,567     296,090   1,170,338     305,709
Sheets Cold Rolled                  565,736     187,332   1,025,999     330,224
Sheets & Strip Galv Hot Dipped      572,979     267,620     494,084     231,922
Sheets & Strip Galv Electrolyt       59,897      25,359      68,438      31,464
Sheets & Strip All Oth Met Coat     127,833      79,972     113,282      72,658
Strip - Hot Rolled                   39,487      14,325      28,924      12,857
Strip - Cold Rolled                  43,864      44,238      48,813      54,420
 
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."